There is a good reason the flat design has become so popular in the web design world. The layout not only looks impressive, it offers designers the chance to create un-cluttered pages that speak volumes, without the need for huge clumps of text.
Flat design is all about removing elements and simplifying to the point where only the key elements remain. Its purpose is to be free of distractions and are generally typography driven. It’s not necessarily easier web design for the designers, as simplification can be much harder than adding elements in.
Flat designed web pages are also extremely easy for users to navigate, with a few simple logos, signs, and phrases doing all the talking on what is predominantly an image based page. Less distractions result in the ability to find information easily. The advantages of incorporating a flat design into your web page include the ability for speedy page development, the ease of visual access to PSD and sketch files, easier theming of interfaces, and fewer assets, which means larger graphics can be utilised.
Here are some great WordPress themes that use this flat design:
Story
Story is a clean, sharp and modern WordPress theme, with a high user rating. It is AJAX powered and offers the user unlimited gallery pages. Story allows easy page customisation with a live theme customiser, and is available for one click download for $58.
Flat WordPress Theme
This theme understands the value of interactivity in a web page, using HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3 to display content in a modern and bold way. With a drag and drop builder, Flat WordPress Theme provides an easy-to-build-on interface, displaying exactly what the page user will see as you develop the site. An animated progress bar, highlight circle animations and a testimonial slider make this theme, at $49 for the standard theme and $69 for the developers version, a must for all page designers.
Loom
For just $58, Loom is a multipurpose responsive theme with eight heading types, an Ebor template builder, and more than 30 custom page building elements. A revolution slider is included in the package, as well as parallax effect, 500+ Google fonts and a pricing table, and Loom, via the one click download, comes with full multilingual technical support.
Metrika
The retina-ready Metrika theme is inexpensive at just $43, and offers solid and photo backgrounds, as well as seven pages designed beautifully with a sleek modern style in mind. Metrika is fully responsive for all devices and is Twitter Bootstrap compatible, built on HTML5 and CSS3 software. Unlimited colours and Google web fonts make Metrika an extremely valuable tool in any web designer’s digital toolkit.
The Ken
With newly added features and improvements, The Ken 2.0 gives designers the opportunity to enjoy new blog styles, an extensive list of shortcodes, and improved layouts. Animated columns allow the creator to develop next-generation layouts, and a OnePager edge slider means compiling visually appealing screen-per-scroll pages is now even easier – and inexpensive, as it’s available for $58.
Renova
It isn’t hard to understand why the $43, most requested WordPress theme Renova is so in demand. A highly reusable layout begins the list of Renova features, that also includes AJAX and stand alone blog pages, a content and image carousel, an Integrated Twitter widget and responsive layout across devices including iOS devices. For $43, Renova is a flat theme offering more than many others, for far fewer dollar signs.
Simplicity
Simplicity is a creative, flat, fully customisable theme, offering a multipurpose layout as well as full social media integration. High quality retina graphics, smooth loading animations and bonus parallax pages make Simplicity a steal at just $48. Flat design is becoming a clear and easy choice for web developers, and it is apparent why, when the layout offers so many creative opportunities whilst being easy to use for all levels of web.