Re: "Flat" design
>$deity I hope skeumorphism stays a dead fashion.
Well, it is often used as a 'stepping stone'* to introduce people to software, e.g program 'windows' are like papers on a desk.
I can see us having skeumorphic icons for Play, Mail, Paintbrush etc for some time yet.
*Even our language is skeumorphc, since we borrow words used for real objects to describe more abstract concepts.