Happy New Year everybody! Up.front will kick off 2013 with a panel discussion, starting on Tuesday, January 8, 7:30 pm at our favourite coworking space co.up.

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  Skeumorphic Mess vs the Boring Flatlands: What’s a “Digitally Native User Interface”?

  Over the past years, we’ve witnessed a constant debate about competing trends in our field: Mimicking real world objects in user interfaces versus a revived flat approach, which the proponents label as more content-focused, digitally native and even honest.
  It’s time to put this into perspective. Is there more to this new flat trend than just a different level of polish and angry designer youth re-discovering modernism? How can a user interface be native and honest in the first place?
  We’ll look at different approaches and whether they’re relevant. To get a broader contexts of terms used in the discussion, we’ll not only discuss interaction design and usability, but also will have a look at art history and architecture.

  • A panel discussion with Conor Delahunty (@conordelahunty), Sarah Lincoln (@sarahlincoln), David Kjelkerud (@davidkjelkerud), Kristin Gräfe (@kristinonair) and Timothy Achumba (@iam_timm).