Welcome To The New Internet: Simple Design, Short Names, No Ads. Symptoms Of An Epidemic: Web Design Trends. Why You Should Get Excited About Emotional Branding Globalization, low-cost technologies and saturated markets are making products and services interchangeable and barely distinguishable.
As a result, today’s brands must go beyond face value and tap into consumers’ deepest subconscious emotions to win the marketplace. In recent decades, the economic base has shifted from production to consumption, from needs to wants, from objective to subjective. We’re moving away from the functional and technical characteristics of the industrial era, into a time when consumers are making buying decisions based on how they feel about a company and its offer. Read more... A Guide To Validating Product Ideas With Quick And Simple Experiments You probably know by now that you should speak with customers and test your idea before building a product. Mistakes include testing the wrong aspect of your business, asking the wrong questions and neglecting to define a criterion for success. Read more... Read more... Reflections on Web Design Trends in 2013. Let’s try to reflect on today’s trends and look a bit ahead.
Today, design is developing by leaps and bounds, and changes in styles are happening almost daily. A huge impact on design comes from inspiration boards. When in years past, a designer showed his creation to his granny, she nodded her head and the designer was satisfied. And then, the stream of thought stopped. Now, there is a tremendous amount of quality inspiration boards, especially on sites such as Behance and Dribbble, where anyone can upload his/her work, and earn praise or criticism from the community. Designers see each other’s work, browse likes and comments, and draw conclusions. So, let’s think more about what we will likely see in 2013. Flat design It is firmly stuck in our time. Metro (Modern) Style, Google and many other companies are now becoming simpler and flatter when it comes to design.
But for now, this is the one big thing and without a lot of variance. CSS3 Animations & Interactive Project Re Redbull TV. Flat Web Design: Trend Or Revolution? Every so often, new ways of doing something sneak into our lives and work habits.
Reason for this can be changing personal preferences, new technologies, or simply the urge to follow trends. A recent new habit in web design is a flat design approach. Flat describes a two dimensional design for a two dimensional screen. For the last few years, skeuomorphism characterised modern and user-centered design. Now, it seems that we have somehow gotten used to the digital age and many of us don’t even remember the real-life counterparts that we tried to represent in our designs. With flat web design, we take a step towards accepting the unique and abstract nature of the web. 1. The Windows phone website shows the characteristic flat Windows design with a lot of color, typography, and a clear structure. Probably the core concept of flat design is that it’s “honest”. There are no shadows, no gradients, no patterns, no 3-D effects, or design elements representing real-world things. 2. 3. 4.
10 Web Design Trends for 2013. For starters, we’d like to say thank you for the amazing reception our free eBook Web design and Mobile Trends for 2013 has had since its launch last week, and especially to all those who made it possible by sharing their insightful opinions.
Today we’re doing a review of the end conclusions, where we will identify and analyze 10 of the key trends. This is just a brief overview of the conclusions you can read in the book. In fact, we have now released an updated version of the eBook in PDF format, which includes a few corrections and a new layout for an easier and more enjoyable reading experience.
It’s no easy task putting together a short summary of all the interviews, but as far as we’re concerned, there are a few memorable statements in the book which nicely encapsulate the conclusions we’ve come to: Bruce Lawson:“If I go to a train website, I don't really want to see a picture of Richard Branson smiling at me, I don't want to read the Chief Exec's ambitions and life history. 1.