Web Design Trends For 2009 | Design Showcase. Advertisement We Web designers are a fickle lot. We love to experiment with things. We love to observe how people interact with our work. And we love to try out unusual design approaches that might possibly go mainstream and become a classic approach. Over the last months, we’ve analyzed numerous Web designs, observing emerging trends and weighing the merits of numerous design decisions and coding solutions. This article covers only 10 of the over 25 trends we’ve identified over the last months. Update: the second part of our review1 is now published as well. Web Design Trends For 2009 Let’s first take a closer look at the main trends we identified, discovered and observed over the last months. Embossing Letterpress Rich user interfaces PNG transparency Big typography Font replacement (sIFR, etc.)
Now let’s go into detail and take a closer look at each of the trends presented above. 1. 2. 3. 4. We presented some outstanding examples of BIG typography in previous6 posts7. 5. 6. 7. 8. Web Templates, WordPress Themes. Elegant Themes - Theme Gallery. Web Templates, Flash Templates, Website Templates Design - Templ.