Web Designer guidelines: Current trends in web design

Article Description: designers and developers need to connect with the market and keep pace with the trend, but the so-called trend is present, the future is unknown. We do need to ensure that we are not left behind by industry trends, but more importantly, adapt and learn in the tide.

Technological innovation has led to the rapid development of the design industry, which makes designers and developers have a broader exploration of the world. and web design has become more and more routine, many teams and companies have done a lot of thinking and creativity. So we adapt to the modern design trend at the same time, may wish to take a look at this stage of the web design of the general trend and style bar. I dare not boast that this is the current trend of web design, this is my current web design to make some small summary. I hope this kind of summary can bring you more ideas and ideas. (Click on the picture to jump directly to the relevant pages)

1. Responsive Web Design (responsive)

Now more and more users have a variety of terminals: desktops, notebooks, tablets, mobile phones, can adapt to the different size of the screen is the current trend, even for a long time in the future design trend. So the response web design is to solve this problem. This special development way can ensure that the Web page to adapt to different resolutions, so that the Web page elements to reorganize, whether in the vertical tablet computer or smartphone, can achieve the best visual effects.

In addition to the multiple terminals of diversification, we can also see our computer screen, mobile phone screen is constantly growing, and in the future of life prediction, conceptual design, "screen" This product is used to a variety of new platforms. For example, the "Future Life Concept Video" released by Microsoft, the kitchen, indoor walls, office glass walls have become interactive platforms. So we can find that responsive web design has a good adaptability and plasticity, in the future of web design will occupy a pivotal position.

2. Full-screen Web Design

The so-called design is not separated, in recent years, the concept of "pure" and "leaving White" in graphic design has also been absorbed by Internet design, in order to make it more simple and clear, to provide more comfortable sensory feeling, many websites begin to adopt Full-screen Web design, with the beautiful background of carefully selected design, and the reasonable page layout, The visual impact of large can be very good to attract the attention of the viewer. Usually the text content on the page is not very much (the small amount of text and the fine typography will become more attractive), mainly to show the main picture. This kind of web site is more common for photographic teams or individual portfolio exhibitions. Although the simple eye-pleasing, but the bearer information is limited, the company department's homepage is very rare such design.

3. Parallax rolling design (Parallax)

Parallax design can be said to be a major breakthrough in web design in recent years, but also highly praised. Parallax scrolling is to allow multi-layer backgrounds to scroll at different speeds to form a 3D stereo movement effect, which brings a unique visual sensation to the viewer.

In addition, the smooth experience of the mouse wheel allows users to view such sites with a sense of control, in short, this is a response to the interactive experience. As if you saw merry-go in your childhood, turn it and you can see the characters move and enjoy the story. This is also the interest of parallax scrolling design. So whether it is the website or the electronic products publicity pages are often used to design parallax, attracting attention is also very popular with users.

4. Flat Design (Flat)

Flat design can be said to be to simplify the design aesthetics. The removal of all decorative designs can be said to be a reversal of the intended materialization design that was previously admired. We can't comment on whether it's good or bad, only that it offers a new design mindset. Whether the flat design will become the future trend we can not answer, despite the mixed, controversial, but for now it is a current trend.

5. Rolling detection web Design (scrollspy)

Use the CSS implementation to secure the navigation bar at the top of the page (most of the top, of course there are side or bottom), and the layout of the content in accordance with the navigation sequence vertical or horizontal arrangement, so that users click the corresponding navigation tab when the page automatically slide to the corresponding page, and if clicked on the content, navigation will also change. Such a page design page basically will not jump, each tab points to the content of the page is also a basic screen display complete, so the content of the page will be limited. In general, it will also be adaptive to not affect the layout.

Scrolling detection of Web pages will be a great challenge to designers-to ensure the integrity of the content in a limited space, so the designer will be up and down in the page. This kind of website structure and disparity design have similarities, so we found that many sites will combine the two, to bring the viewer a different visual experience and user experience.

6. Infinite scrolling mode (waterfall flow)

There are a lot of content on the site, but they do not have a simple paging, but the use of a vertical waterfall flow of the way layout. The contents are arranged vertically, and the content is constantly updated as the user scrolls vertically, seemingly endlessly. This waterfall flow has been popular long before, the earliest use of the layout is Pinterest. Such a scrolling page greatly reduces the number of pages, personally think that for such information is large, daily update data fast site is a relatively good plan.

7. The style of the Web page design

Today's Web pages are no longer subject to many conditions and technical limitations as in the past. Its presentation is quite rich. Style from fresh to retro, illustrator hand-painted to the real design, wonders. Whether it is layout layout, or design elements, using the word unconventional is never too. According to the tip of the iceberg that I've been skimming, I'd mention the most profound changes to my feelings:

(1) Strengthening the sense of graphic design

Web design, with the innovation of equipment and technology, has already broken through the limitations of a single framework and become more flexible. So in the page style more began to close to the graphic design, many pages are designed to give posters and magazines to the layout sense. Stylish and full of impact.

(2) Focus on font design

In recent years, many designers have incorporated font design into the web design, and as an important element of design to enhance the entire Web page taste. By using CSS3 designers to have many custom fonts, this adds an important design idea to the visual design of the Web page.

(3) rich and flexible animation

HTML5 and Flash are widely used to make interactive animations of web pages more lively and interesting.

By looking at how these trends affect the design of modern web sites, you may be able to guide and diffuse new ideas for web designers.

Although designers and developers need to connect with the market and keep pace with the trend, but the so-called trend is present, the future is indeed unknown. We do need to ensure that we are not left behind by industry trends, but more importantly, adapt and learn in the tide.