6 Trends in Web Design Coming To A Website Near You
Web design shifts and changes every season just like the fashion world. Instead of watching a runway on Fashion Week, here's a few sites I use to preview what's likely to take off next:
- Behance Network - Creative Professional Platform to share what designers are working on now. Filter results by Blogging, Web Design, or Web Development for a peak. Behance is a NYC-based startup.
- Dribble - A nicely designed portfolio site, check out what's been posted in web design lately. Allows you to search by color if you have one in mind.
- DeviantArt - Less curated than Behance but still relevant, click my link for an overview of popular web interfaces submitted in the last week.
Huge F'ing Background ImagesPopularized into the mainstream by Bing, this has spread to tons of tech startups and newer page designs.
Go Right Not DownWhen web designers found out that folks didn't want to scroll down for more than a few page views, they started asking viewers to navigate to the right.
Arranging Images In Tag Cloud StyleJust like a word tag cloud makes more frequent words appear larger, some sites are now organizing their images using this principle to make more important images larger.
Notification AlertsUsing smart icons with red badges has become prevalent from iPhone Apps to Facebook.
Grey GradientsBlack is too hard to read and white is so 1996, so we've settled on grey gradients as the cool kids color.
Better TypographyWe finally got bored with half a dozen font choices and the following companies are driving better typography coming to the world wide web.
