Web design and Development: Trends in web design and development in the 2012

Article Description: 15 trends in web design and development in the 2012.

Craig Grannell visited the industry's elite on the 2012 trends in web design and development.

2012 seems destined to be an interesting year. The economic downturn continues to hit the industry extensively, with no end in sight. The government is trying to censor the internet, denying the basic rights of citizens and propping up crumbling media companies.

For web design and development, 2012 is still a relatively confusing year. We are in a lot of small contradictions: mobile greed to occupy market share; Native apps threaten the open Internet; toll walls block ever-free information; conflict between cooperation and fragmentation; Retro (skeuomorphism) Interaction Patterns Challenge innovative design patterns.

It's hard to predict what will happen in the future, but some designers, development engineers and industry gurus have come up with their own ideas. Here are some of their guesses about 2012, and you're more likely to be successful.

1. Progressive Enhancement (progressive enhancement)

Jeffrey Zeldman, founder of Happy Cog, said that the explosion of mobile web and the Web browsing of WebKit smartphones beyond traditional desktops have made it even more stubborn for skeptics to adopt progressive enhancements, HTML5, CSS3, and other aspects of web-based design. He also noted that IE's support for web standards is getting better, and it is a further indication that people can't wait to embrace the new world.

2. Responsive design (responsive)

In addition, Zeldman that we are experiencing the "torture of the web standards," but in the hardware field, there are now a lot of devices, with different performance--it's a hassle to develop a separate interface for them. Because of this, he expects responsive design to play a big role in 2012, bridging the bridges between different platforms.

Clearleft founder Andy Budd that this could be a way for radical publishers to use the ipad to capture Apple's toll wall, and that by the end of 2012, a trickle of responsive web sites would turn into a gurgling river. "It's like web standards are starting to move again," he said. "But flat Frog's user experience strategist, Jo Richey, doesn't think it's going to be a smooth ride. "The site scales, and that alone does not mean that all the information value on the desktop and the mobile platform is the same." Information about user interaction needs to be flexibly adjusted, as is the size of the site. "So there will be more projects and customers who are concerned about the screen size and need appropriate strategies to allow the content to be displayed properly at different resolution devices," she said.

Elliot Jay Stocks website is displayed in different devices. In the 2012, responsive design will become more common.

3. Flash will Survive

A lot of flash-designed sites are thought to stay in 2011, but designer Tom Muller predicts that Adobe's technology will remain alive in 2012 and will not be destroyed. "Many people support the use of web standards instead of flash design sites, and are increasingly less likely to use flash sites." However, I believe flash will still exist for some time. Muller explained that during 2011, he was involved in three major projects, all based on Flash, because Flash is the best tool for creating interactive video, animations, and 3D.

"Designers and development engineers sometimes don't look long enough to understand what is most critical for most people, because they prefer the cool things they fantasize about." "More and more big websites are switching from flash to HTML5 and CSS3," he said, "but for entertainment sites, Flash is and will always be the best choice for creating the perfect experience." Because these sites are like the expansion of the movie world, not just boring text messages. In the gaming industry, Dull Dude Games founder Iain Lobb predicts that Flash will return in 2012, and customers will try to use HTML5 because that's the focus, but I think the right thing to do is bring them back to the flash era.

Threaded Show class website Flash exists for one of the reasons.

4. Stronger native support

Even if Flash has been around for 2012 years, browser native features and functionality will continue, opera's speaker, Bruce Lawson, said, "as support for HTML5 grows and there are more browsers and platforms, we see greater pressure on native support, It supports features that used to be supported by Plug-ins: cameras, microphones, etc. through the use of HTML5 Getusermedia, there are other things, such as support for adaptive streaming media. ”

More browser native features can support features that were previously only available through Plug-ins, such as Sean Christmann's demo

5. Application starts to stabilize

Remy Sharp, who claims to be proficient in code and cookies, says 2012 browsers and platforms are more tightly knit, "I look forward to seeing more high quality, high-performance Web games from which you can't tell if it's native." "He also believes that more sites will run on files or other aspects of the operating system."

From a visual standpoint, Muller that this trend will allow designers to design on the basis of tablet and screen interaction, creating a hybrid design between the mouse and the touch screen. He also pointed out that the 2012 heavy texture design will begin to appear, to some extent, Apple equipment expressed strong approval. But designer Roger Black thinks that in a world dominated by content, designers and editors will "want to lighten the boom and turn what they know into something else." "Instead of using flat-panel news and mobile magazine sites For example, think about digital publishing," he advises. ”

On the technical side, Suw Charman-anderson, a community software consultant, predicts that the convenience of apps expands the number of consumers, but it is a headache for development engineers, as developers create apps that need to be compatible with a variety of platforms and need to deal with different store policies. Spanning the battle between native and Web apps, she believes that 2012 will bring a wide range of native/HTML5 hybrid app apps, and you can add content to different platforms from one source. "They use HTML5 to combine iOS and Android to create a better user experience," she said, citing the pugpig.com website. This is only a matter of time, and this strategy is the only way for small businesses to adapt to different platforms. ”

Muller that Apple's obsession with retro design will continue to affect the design world.

6. Web app Split (fragmentation)

You may think 2012 Web apps will continue to grow, but Lawson is worried that 2012 years will be a year of web apps splitting. Prior collaboration with the browser vendor facilitates the advancement of the HTML5 specification, but does not contribute to the specification of other tiers of the web. Unfortunately, we see a lot of chrome-proprietary apps, and the extreme examples of "don't invent here" already have 10--yes, 10--different app formats that are invented by providers rather than collaborative. This hit the development engineer and, worse, hurt the user.

Mozilla's technical expert Rob Hawkes is optimistic that the Boot to Gecko,mozilla operating system can contribute to the growth of web apps and reduce app development for a single browser provider. The Boot to Gecko Project focuses on the mobile domain, which implements many web interfaces to access the characteristics of the mobile hardware.

Although in the early stages, the Boot to gecko may slow down the splitting of web apps. (the picture is obtained from a wiki.) ）

7. Moving more and more important

When it comes to moving, it's easy to think about the continued growth of mobile traffic and usage. Mobile apps will have a huge advantage and we will see growth in the mobile MVC framework, as 37signals,treehouse founder Ryan Carson said.

In terms of market share, mobile platform expert Peter-paul Koch that 2012 mobile web will increase by 10%. Customers will be asked to do mobile web sites, so desktop designers and development engineers are ready to lose customers, he warns. Koch that creating mobile sites can bring several benefits: no more flash, mouse effects and pixel based rendering. So focus on response design, device APIs, and what features are most needed for mobile devices, and more aware that Web sites need to adapt to different devices.

2012 mobile growth thereby leads to the growth of mobile optimization sites

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