When we talk about website design, there can be two distinctive elements, innovation and following the trends. Since who don’t like to seize the opportunity that trending and people are loving it? And do you know the first quarter of the year is best time to implement these changes before everyone else does, and since it’s only February, we’ve still got plenty of time.
So don’t you want to know some of the website design trends that are going to hit the internet later this year?
Create Variety
The first thing to consider here is that website cannot be fixed in a mold. Since responsive designs, WordPress templates are gaining popularity because of their responsiveness. You don’t want to be left behind. But this still doesn’t mean you should follow exactly the industry’s trend.
Don’t stress, there’s always space to stand out from the crowd and stay diversified.
This doesn’t mean at all that you need to swap and adjust different designs for creating differentiation. Perhaps, you can think out of the box and see what can be different yet effective for your user experience keeping in mind you don’t miss that spark.
Look at Alexbuga website and how exceptionally it offers unique navigation like a new design trend.
Fluid backgrounds with tinted overlay where the video is still playing in the background is another distinctive website design. Look at this MediaBoom website.
CSS3 animations, grids, distinctive layouts and unique fonts along with other design elements can create vast possibilities for web designers, yet not sacrifice usability.
2016 is the year where designers are going out of the parameters of traditional website design practices and coming up with design trends that are easier to navigate, distinctive and desirable by audience.
Handmade Illustrations
HD images and stock photography have been noticed much in 2015 and most website designs are now inclining towards their use. Web designers are looking positive over the idea of using extremely customized handmade illustrations, sketches and caricatures this year because a customized piece of art is more kind of speaking for itself.
Look at these uniquely made paintings, sketches below
These days, website designers are also going for more of a trendy hand written typographies for navigational menus.
Artificial Intelligence
A lot of websites offer an online chat for questions and queries. Still, it is really hard for the operators to respond to all messages on time and time is the most important factor in people’s lives today, because people want a prompt response as you never know where and when they might need assistance.
Have you heard about Microsoft’s’ Cortana, Gmail’s Smart Reply and Facebook’s M that UI designers have put on purpose for us, where they instantaneously respond, are timely and as helpful as your closest friend can be.
Yes! These are not humans but sophisticated form of artificial intelligence that is taking over the web.
So now you have these AI bots that remember all the calendar events, remind you of important dates like anniversaries, birthdays, and sending email responses on your behalf during holidays when emails are coming at furious pace, help you find files on your PC, suggest holiday packages and even sending greetings to the one you care for.
These programs have totally eradicated to find any difference between man and machines. These AI assistants are changing people’s life and making a great impact in the way people interact online.
Similarly, you can also instill artificial intelligence in your website design to so that your audience can get answers/solutions/suggestions on-the-go and on time.
Microinteractions
Each time when you upload a status, hit like button, log-in or sync data there is a microinteraction involved.
These interactions are unnoticeable and require little unobtrusive effort from the users.
Animations
Animations are nowadays not only restricted to storytelling, but they are a source of audience engagement, interaction and creating user experience.
Look at this wonderful parallax scrolling in Cyclemon website
Avalaunch Media shows quick history of social media simply by hovering mouse on the specific date
IRIS Digital has some interactive loading animations with a background sound
Try adding unobtrusive, simple and swift animations in your website design showing sync between all the elements and creating a unique user experience if your web design is based on storytelling focus on thematic consistency.
Conclusion
The above defined practices are the forecasted design trends for the year 2016. But one important thing to consider here is that your website design need to be mobile-friendly because people nowadays are navigating websites on the go.
So, no matter what mix of these design trends you adopt, you need to be focused for the mobile version as well since we cannot overlook the fact people are mobile savvy. There are a lot of website builders available online like WordPress, Wix, GoDaddy, Glu7 and others. But ask me and I would recommend GLU7 and WP personally.
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