OAT Shoes Liesbeth den Toom 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. If your only goal is to impress a community of fellow designers with your flashy designs, you’ll find yourself quickly beneath the tide. 2011 is not about beauty, it’s about function. 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! 4. 5. Technology has become much more tactile.
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.
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