cultural solutions uk I Lincolnshire based cultural consultancy I research, planning & events management services Web Design Trends in 2011 There is a thin line between design and development, and as we move into a new decade, this line is becoming extremely blurry. Is it enough to draw beautiful mock ups in Photoshop? Maybe 5 years ago. These days, the average internet user requires more. All beauty, with no substance, gets boring after a while. How will you stay relevant as a designer in 2011? Take a gander at the top 11 trends for 2011. 1. What a gratifying sigh of relief! Now that’s shown, please understand that Flash and HTML5 are not equal opponents. Perhaps even more exciting is the fact that CSS3 is available to us in a real way this year. 2. Simplicity. Shades of green create this Twitter visualization tool. Red can be jarring if done incorrectly. 3. Smartphones, iPads, netbooks, oh my! Creating a mobile ready website is not simply removing the bells and whistles from your design. With the help of CSS3, primarily media queries, mobile web design has taken a big leap forward (more on this later). 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
70+ Fresh and Creative Single Page Website Designs As you’ve already seen in our previous posts about Single Page Website Designs that showcasing your work in single page design is a hot trend now days. It’s kind of ironic to see what designers can do with single pages as modern age designers love to experiment with things and observe how people interact with their work. Even though this is not a common trend to follow but still as the new design styles come up, and as more and more designers notice them and make use of them in their work, this kind of trends emerge. In this presentation, you’ll find a variety of highly-creative, beautiful and most importantly inspirational designs which is following the same trend of single page designs. The main purpose here is to stimulate your creativity and to inspire your imagination to create your own design trend because your website represents you and your brand. You may be interested in the following modern trends related articles as well. Single Page Website Designs for Design Inspiration Youzee
Cymetriq Studio | Visual Communication Without Limits. TEDxPortland The State of Web Design Trends: 2011 Annual Edition 2010 has been an incredibly verdant year for web designers. Mobile has hit the mainstream; Web typography has reached new levels of sophistication; New coding techniques have vastly improved our ability to get creative with design (without compromising stability). All in all, it's been a year that's moved fast, even by the standards of the web, so let's dig in to our first annual post covering the state of web design as 2010 turns to 2011. The Death of the Fold The traditional "fold" (the imaginary line on a screen that designates what content is visible before a viewer needs to scroll) became vague, unimportant, and nearly irrelevant in 2010. Why? We'll be discussing this topic in a lot more detail this month, so subscribe (it's free) to stay tuned :) Mobile Sites Sites have been being designed for mobile scenarios since the inception of mobile devices... but 2010 has seen a huge push towards entire sub-sites that are designed specifically to be viewed on small, handheld screens.
40 Excellent Examples of Single Page Websites Several months ago, we published a list showcasing 40 Inspiring Single Page Websites, and as we had a lot of comments and everybody really loved the post, we decided to gather a new list, showing some new and fresh examples to inspire you. Single page websites are still a big hit this year, and we see new examples of this trend popping up everyday. To put this list together I was able to find many great examples on One Page Love, which is a great source for those who like to stay tuned in on the single page world. So enjoy the list… Jeroen Homan haatch creative design Brian Plemons mobily Uncle Pear The Brand Crew jephfernandez cahoona Manjo Graphics Catalytic Design Giuliano Liker BaileyArtStudio Sonny Langers Matthias Last Paths of Design niche Komrade Viktor Shvaiko fatih tanriverdi Social-IT-e Media mnmly Vision 18 Marko Cvetkovic Michał Ptaszyński swearjar Bowtie. Who is Leon Flyer App Goslingo Kardo Ayoub altitude Adrian Crellin Creating Heroes Sirulian Design Studios Hayley Smith Conway Anderson DavidSalvatori.com
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