Articles Tagged 'trends'
Current Trends in Social News Website Design
Salman SiddiquiTrends don't happen overnight. It is the gradual process of change in an industry that initiates new trends silently. We might not notice the "new" trends in an industry unless they actually become new trends. I covered the trends behind hotel web designs just because I could see a pattern emerging amongst all the well known hotel web designs. Nowadays, community based news sites have become very common. Such sites push the end user to share news and vote for news articles that are worth it. Digg lost its fan following but Reddit is still killing it. Somehow such news based community websites have followed a set pattern which has always been the success formula. This discussion will focus on such trends that have kept the community based news sharing websites going since a long period. From The Archives - While you are here, don't forget to check 45 Best Social News Websites To Garner More Traffic that we did on 1WD a long time back. Most of them are still as effective now as they were back then.
The Year 2012 For Designers And Social Media Masterminds
"Change is inevitable" is a very boring line to start this discussion, but somehow it is the best fit for my upcoming thoughts. The changes witnessed by the Web Design and Social Media industry in the year 2011 were a cue for us to predict what might just happen in the year 2012. The word responsive can become overly predictive in 2012 just like HTML5 was in 2011. Similarly, multiple brands will pick up HTML5 and might just start showing off, unless the showoff becomes a turnoff for visitors. Assuming that Mayans prediction of the earth coming to an end in the year 2012 was a dud, this discussion will focus on the upcoming trends that will become important in the year 2012 and the upcoming years.
Design Trends vs. Great Design
Jared LatigoHere is something that I believe touches the design community and each of its members on a personal level each day. We all use inspiration and we have a "design style." But where the line begins to become blurry is right between trends and greatness. It's not so much that I believe a particular design trend is great or that one isn't, but moreso that we need to take a step back and remember that trends come and go and that one trend doesn't make a design great. Also remember that just because a trend works for one project, doesn't mean it works for another. So what I'm going to do here is give a nice little reminder to think before you design and take each project on its own.
Art Direction Trend Coming To 1WD: Foundations And History
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Be Inspired: 40 Blogs with Amazing Grunge Design
Charina TorresWhile designing a user interface, it is important that your design is attractive to entice your viewers with your website. One of the hot design trend these days is Grunge Design. In grunge design, elements are disorganized to give a dirty look. Grunge designs are usually crooked, stained, crumpled, jagged and grubby. Most of them have dirty, dull colors such as Dark Red, Gray, Brown or Black. But nowadays, designers also use bright colors for grunge styles mixed with shapes, textures and real life graphics. A grunge style features wide range of elements that are put together to give a creative impression on viewers. To give you a better idea, I am putting down some examples of grunge design.
50 Insanely Creative Examples of Single Page Websites
Jane BernardoSingle page layout or website is growing a trend in IT world this 2010. Web designs are really crucial now a days because of the element needed to produce a great website. With single page website, you're putting your creativity, content and everything in just one place. Simplicity , creative yet flexibility of the design is being offered. In this article, I'll be featuring most beautiful single page website inspired.
Modern Design Trends In Digital Art & Free Brushes To Copy Them
Daniels MekšsIf you’re a fan of digital art, you’ve probably noticed some techniques that are used more than other. Just like in web design, over the past few years there has developed few trends in digital art too. In this article you’re going to find some of them together with bright examples. And that’s not all. For each trend there is a couple of Photoshop brushes listed that will help you achieve the same effect without putting in a lot of work.
Upcoming and OnGoing Web Design Trends of 2010
Ari SuardiyantiTrend is a set of rules we somehow follow, not as something we designers obey. It is more like a guidance to help us set new ideas whenever we create a design. In the web design industry, we realized that the trend changes rapidly. Not only to accomplish the aesthetically feel, the user interface plays another great role as well. Although the year of 2010 will be over in 3 more months, the revolutions in web design this year have led designers to achieve extra ordinaries web designs, while continuing to set the unlimited parameters of it.
73 Blog Designs From Deviantart You’ll Never Forget
Dainis GraverisFor some long time I’ve been gathering great blog designs from deviantart to get inspired and now I will showcase them all in one huge article!! Surprisingly finding great ideas and designs have been much easier in Deviantart than any other web design showcase sites. I didn’t add any comments this time – compare these designs yourself and try to understand why ones really stand out, well others seem a little bit classical. Notice small things, how designer puts a little bit unique style in its design to make emphasis like folding, comment,date boxes which stand out from layout, icons, background textures and nice shadings.
Modern Element Trends In Minimal Webdesign of 2010
As you may heard, I've been working on site redesign for a long time already and now I am deeply researching modern elements in minimal webdesign - I decided to share my research with all of you. I think this modern&minimal trend will rule for some time, time for loud elements and web 2.0 cheap shiny badges has been long gone – time for subtle emphasis, accents, big and stylish fonts, lightly textured backgrounds,grids, lots of negative space, usage of icons.
