Website trends change rapidly. They often come and go. Websites these days follow different trends than what they did just a year ago. Therefore, it is important for web designers to understand about current and upcoming trends. It can help them stay ahead of competition.
Many new website design trends come from preferences and tastes of designers and users in usability and design. What makes those changes important is improvement of technology. So, technology is a big driving force that helps design move forward.
In the recent years, we’ve seen web design trends such as
Most of these trends continue to be refined, and some are being replaced by better alternatives. Others, such as background videos, will always be used in moderation.
Material design is a perfect alternative to flat design that brings back great graphical elements. It can stack and remove elements as needed. It even has in-built animations that would normally be created manually. It’s design language with specific set of guidelines that takes out all the guesswork. The results look same from all platforms.
Flat design scales well and is very easy to read on all type of mobile devices. It’s also practical and works well and also loads fast. It also limits the amount of colors you can use and may also look generic.
Flat design is going to stay here and is compatible with Material Design as well as being fully responsive and minimal. It’s one of the hottest website trends 2016.
Responsive design and increased resolutions make it possible to improve typography, that’s why that is one of the web design trends that would be hot in 2016. They were not widely used previously due to lower screen size and resolutions but now a day’s, screen sizes and resolutions are getting larger. Also, layout designs are more clear and visible for elegant fonts.
Today users are consuming more content on their websites. Latest websites display typography based on screen resolutions. So, high resolution screens will have serifs and handwriting while lower resolution screens could have fonts that are more suitable for those resolutions.
Touch events are now becoming more prominent. More and more sites are now using plug-in to handle events such as swipe and tap. This takes sites beyond just being responsive to screen size, but also to finger size, screen type, amount of pressure used, etc.
Minimalism rules for all mobile devices. Some desktop elements can be easily hidden when the website is viewed on a mobile device. Other elements can be easily adjusted or modified depending upon the screen type and size. Strip out less important elements and fit them into the screen without losing the message.
Images, slideshows, elements, buttons, menus and so forth should be developed with mobile devices in mind. Fortunately, this material design brings back visual elements so websites don’t have to look plain on mobiles.
Browsers are now very fast at rendering images. This means now images can be larger with higher resolutions than before. So expect much greater emphasis on better quality artwork and images.
WordPress is one of the best commenting systems, but now more readers leave within social networks than websites. So, more and more websites will use social commenting systems than built-in WordPress commenting system.
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