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What really happens when you have flat design is that you can't hide your mediocrity behind layers of eye candy.

Assume that you give both a carpenter craftsman and an amateur instructions to build a table. You only want solid blocks of wood, nothing fancy. Would you be able to tell them apart?

It's all in the fundamentals, I doubt a mediocre designer can develop a coherent visual system on flat design.

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But, you do realise that you just proved the authors point right? Sure, you would obviously be able to tell the difference, but I'm pretty sure that the difference would be a lot smaller than if you had requested table with ornaments and wooden inlays.

exactly ;-)

The difference is smaller, yes. However, when you make simple things of poor craftmanship (in design, code or anything) you can't fool anybody. That's a good thing too.

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