It is naive to say that trends that are changing in one or another creative area occur exactly on January 1 of each New Year. Now, however, we can identify the brightest trends that predetermine the direction of modern web design.
These are current aesthetic techniques and concepts to which designers are increasingly looking to give their designs a hot fashion vision.
The list of design trends that are currently gaining momentum in web design can also turn into your professional inspiration and help you achieve better results.
While you are pondering how to incorporate them into your own style or project, you should focus on the basic idea of each individual trend. Do not be afraid to dive boldly into these trends and allow yourself to be strongly influenced by current web design ideas.
1. Huge Logos / Header Scrap pages are outdated. To make an unforgettable impression on visitors to a site, you have to trust the huge logos and equally large headers. This type of headers can occupy the whole screen, but with one important note: visitors should not click on it but scroll down. Most visitors have a click of the phobia (a result of poor navigation a few years ago), and headsets of such caliber are doing the same job as a fake page, but without forcing visitors to click.
The basic idea: The huge headers will make visitors remember you.
2. Sketches and hand-painted design
Hand-painted designs are not genius-new, but we cannot deny that they are still on the edge of web design. Many designers admire the style but are afraid to create their own sketches because they are not very convinced of their personal artistic skills. However, if you look at some of the most popular hand-painted websites, you will notice that most designers can not draw in the most direct sense of the word. Ultimately, the purpose of these web projects is not to be exhibited in a contemporary art museum, but to create a sense of the consumer that the border between the "cold" online environment and the inspiring artistic is blurred.
The main idea: Sketches and hand-painted elements will become part of corporate design.
3. Typography
Typography is one of the most difficult trends and will continue to be relevant this year. With all appeals for ease of use, web designers are afraid to use new and different fonts. However, the idea of mixing different fonts and sizes is not entirely unthinkable. Fonts are designed to be researched, modified, and tailored to best suit your specific goals. With the right positioning, any web site that uses typography as the primary design element will be more interesting to readers than another, cluttered with pictures and pictures site.
The main idea: Typography is still a new trend, but has an outstanding creative potential.
4. "one page" layout
One-page layouts cause you to eliminate everything unnecessarily. Think of these sites as business cards.
The basic idea: One-page layouts are more suitable for personal profiles than for corporate
5. Large photos and images
Like huge logos and headers, the use of large images and images is designed to capture the user's attention and leave a clear trace of what they see in his memory. Large photos create a powerful visual effect that visitors of the site would not forget easily. Unlike the huge header at the top of the site, big photos are not part of the site's branding. Instead, these images awaken consumer curiosity and prompt them to examine them more thoroughly, if not for their content and message, at least because of their impressive size.
The basic idea: Huge images can be used to invite users to view not only the photo but also the entire site.
6. Changing the perspective
You have certainly noticed that the prospect of many sites is simply missing.
The basic idea: With the change of perspective, designers will be able to give users a new sense of dimension in web sites.
7. Interactive / intuitive design
Some time ago, you could not visit a web site without encountering a flashing, bouncing, rotating, etc. flash interface. Today, however, flash technology is used much more professionally, creatively and in much more acceptable quantities. Although some designers prefer JQuery for different shapes and pop-ups, the flash still has its place in website design. However, no other technology can compete with its interactivity.. Because today's average Internet user is quite experienced and "literate," designers will seek to create even more intuitive websites than in the past.
The main idea: Interactive design returns to make the website entertaining and appealing and to keep users in it for as long as possible.
8. Modular boxes. The modded box jokingly can be defined as the big, more sophisticated brother of the pop-up window - the modular box is stylish, looks good and popular. Modular boxes are easy to design and even easier to use, making them an ideal solution for any designer, especially when usability is a priority..
9. Minimalism
Forget about the old generation of minimalist websites.. Not all minimalist sites will be left in the simplified black and white color concept and will show fresh colors.
The basic idea: Minimalism in web design will unite with typology.
10. Huge footer
The big foot is now an indispensable part of the design of modern websites, but it will become even bigger and more impressive.. Huge fans will attract the attention of users not only because of their unusual size, but also because of the information they provide: mostly updates from social networking organization / personality profiles, news, Flickr photostream.
A basic idea: the huge fans will contain non-essential information, but it will have a much more personal character and will be important for the company's communication with its audiences.
11. Retro style
Retro is the new fashion in web design. While many web designers admire retro web design, most of them may find it hard to embrace the idea because it means ignoring their professional aspirations to follow innovative techniques and styles in web design. The key to creating a successful retro design is to draw inspiration from his tone and hidden playfulness..
Basic idea: retro is new!
12. Intro boxes
Fields for a simple, friendly presentation such as ". More and more designers are beginning to appreciate the simplicity and the strong impression that this kind of direct performance makes to consumers. If you are wondering whether to create a separate "About Us" or Intro Box page, simply trust the current trend and bet on the second one. Intro boxes are obligatory, if you are forced to present a lot of information in a relatively small space. Except that intro boxes will enjoy creative design, they will also be positioned in rather unusual places.
Basic idea: An unusual way to say "Hello."
13. Layout as a magazine
As more and more people migrate from the convenience of traditional press to online infotainment, designers face the challenge of providing them with an easy transition. Web design has seen a move toward intentional search for the effect of magazine layout. The information is carefully organized on the home page, giving visitors the opportunity to explore and find the topic they are interested in..
Basic idea: Layout will be used in infotainment sites.