Prime Web Design Trends to Look Forward To in 2016

In these times, where trends come and go quite often, web design is a quickly moving and changing industry. While still work going on some of those trends now: flat design, responsive web design, speed and performance, and perfecting the user experience. Many new design trends come from taste and preferences of designers and users in usability and design. Improvement in technology is what makes these changes possible. It’s a major driving force and also helps design move forward.

However, what are the new emerging trends we can watch out for in 2016? Let’s look through some of these we can expect to see more of this year.

Recent years saw trends such as:-

• Minimal
• Flat
• Video Sliders
• CSS Animation
• Newsletter Popup
• Long Scroll
• Hero Images
• Hamburger Menus
• Responsive
• Mobile first
• Fronted Frameworks

 

Many of these will continue to get refined while some will get replaced with better alternatives 2016. Some will be used with moderation like background video.

• Material Design – it’s an alternative to flat design which brings back some nice graphical elements. It’s a Google design standard set which separates elements using the layers concept that is found in image editing software. It stacks and removes elements as they are needed. Also built in animations that are normally created manually.

• Still Experimenting With Navigations And Menus – putting it in a new and unexpected place, hide it behind a hamburger icon or just remove it because it doesn’t look good. Experimenting and doing new things to work it well and be useful.

• To Scroll Or Not To Scroll – we know that scrolling increases readership but some definitely wants less scrolling. There are merits and demerits for both. Long scrolling feels natural and easier than clicking but spaces out content and makes it harder to scan. While shorter scroll gets to the point quickly but increases bounce rates.

• Designing In Modules And Components Instead Of Entire Pages – instead of mocking up entire layouts, web design is moving towards component design and modular for a particular web page. Designing how the search function will work, the navigation will be laid out are involved in these components.

• Design Continues To Flatten Out – flat design will continue to dominate design aesthetic throughout 2016. Those websites which already embraced flat design trend will look to make things even flatter.

• Ditching The Stock Elements For Something Better – ditching the use of stock elements such as stock photography or icon sets over things which are much more designed and personal to the site itself.

• Forms And Inputs Go Full Screen – from the wide spread adaptation of responsive website design, website design practices are being carried throughout entire website instead of only the mobile versions.

• Rich But Subtle Animations – as web design is flattening out, websites have started to look more alike. Only way designers are trying to make their sites stand apart from the crowd is through the use of rich, clever and subtle animations.

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