Is the New Google Interface Flat? Announced on Google I/O 2013

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Just in time for Google’s annual I/O developers conference, the web giant launched a pretty dramatic redesign to its Google+ social networking arm and Google Maps.

It is Flat?

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“Nearly flat” is a great adjustment. The new MS Office suite is a slave to the flat look to its detriment. Anything that needs to pack a lot of information in, like options screens, toolbars, print preview and such like becomes hard to scan because of the conformity, and I expect over the next couple of years the UI is going to have to evolve out of necessity’s sake.

Surely some startup has created a IsMyWebsiteUIFlat.com ? All you need is a bit of HTML parsing, feed it into some hipster-judging style algorithm, and hey presto, an automated measurement tool for the latest UI fad.

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