Web design trends change. These days it’s getting normal to hire a professional agency to design great looking views with properly selected colors, gradients, and animations. But the modern UI is not only about creating a bunch of panels with rounded corners. It’s about making the user’s interaction with your application convenient eliminating unnecessary forms, warning messages (like please use only digits and dashes while entering the phone number), pre-populating fields wherever possible, asking for the user’s input only when it’s absolutely necessary, smart processing of scanned documents and more.

This is what we mean by modern UI, a.k.a. UX or User Experience. Instead of just re-creating your legacy application to run on the Web or mobile devices, we analyze its workflow trying to identify what can be changed to improve the UX.

People think it’s this veneer — that the designers are handed this box and told, ‘Make it look good!’ That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Steve Jobs