It’s our time, where we look into our crystal ball to see what will be the hot trends in web design for the upcoming year. There are no secrets that trends come and go, with some hanging around longer than they should
But trends are a necessity in the development and growth of our craft. New trends where born and who beats the process of the old ones. So as a web designer, when you apply new trends to your projects, challenge yourself to expand upon them and make them your own. Our estimation that the concepts we mention below will grow and become even bigger in 2012.
1.Responsive Web Design
Web designers and developers will move to the use of fluid layouts instead fixed width, and media queries will find their way into many more style sheets – allowing more sites to easily be viewed across multiple screens sizes and devices.
2.Fixed-Position Navigation
If your website doesn’t have a lot of main navigation then you only need to provide a few small links. The concept idea is to keep the navbar and internal links/logo locked in place as your visitors scroll through the content.
3.Circles
You can design circles and shapes without the need for any images. The impact of these features has caused designers to look at photos in another light entirely.
4.Big Vector Art
The goofy oversized mascots you can spot throughout websites have begun to claim a brand of their own. Just a few years ago you could not find very much illustration work tied into web branding. But the quality of individual designer’s talent has improved greatly.
5.Multi-Column Menus
Multi-column layouts are elegantly brilliant in their own regard. You can easily display numerous links to your visitors and keep this section fitted squarely around your logo.
6.jQuery/CSS3/HTML5 Animation
I have always recommended jQuery effects when applied in small portions. Web design must encompass the whole user experience as well as fancy aesthetics and bonus animations.
7.Ribbons & Banner Graphics
Designers began to write simplified tutorials for creating page ribbons, banners, bookmarks, or other types of display badges. Because of the massive emergence of free information more designers have begun jumping into the trends, too.
8.Custom Font Faces
Type kit was however a buggy system with very little support up until a few years ago. Now Google Web Fonts has been giving them a run for their money, and it appears to be more popular than ever!
9.Infographics
This trend certainly doesn’t affect the overall web design, but as for user experience and content presentation info graphics have blown the roof off new-age media
10.Focus on Simplicity
Rearrange a layout into a clean setup doesn’t require minimalism at the heart of it all. Spend some time writing and drafting out ideas for your navigation, page hierarchy, headings, content area etc. I find that a little bit of pre-planning can go a long way towards simplifying everything.
Thanks to all