A few weeks ago a bunch of designers shared their insights and thoughts on Design Trends for 2010. What was clearly evident at the end of that community post was that 2010 would see more personalization of websites, grids would become even more popular with the standard grid size possibly shifting to a higher resolution, the lines between web and print designs would blur with designers bringing more realistic and organic print styles into the world wide web and retro would continue to rule.
I have been browsing a lot of websites and have been observing emerging and growing trends in most of the varied disciplines of design. One of the biggest trends that I predict will be fully explored and exploited in 2010 is Big Typography. Starting back in 2007, the big type trend has been gaining a lot of momentum in 2009. In 2010 with more portfolio websites and blogging themes becoming premium and minimalistic, big typography will sky rocket. Fonts will be used in design in a way they have never been used before. With more and more new foundries emerging and giving away some weights of their premium fonts for free, designers have more access to beautiful fonts than they did earlier. I also see icon design becoming extremely intricate with studios spending hours to perfect a single icon, rendering it in 3D and releasing it in all kinds of resolution. Gone are the days of pixelated, teeny tiny icons. The new icon touted in high resolutions is here to replace stock imagery and ricochet between print and web with ease. This has been largely fueled by social media and the necessity to have social media icons on websites for easy sharing and bookmarking. Carousels are fun and they are trending well this year. I predict more advanced and smart carousels with more dynamic data being accessed and displayed next year. The magazine style of websites and blogs is here to stay. There has been an explosion of this style on the internet in the recent months because it is eye-catching and manages to give exposure to a lot of data in little snippets. Websites with a lot of content benefit well from such a style.
Green, organic designs have just started catching on and will peak in 2010. With more and more people becoming eco-conscious and brands/organizations revolving around reducing our carbon imprint become more prevalent, the need to develop identities and create designs that are green and organic will increase magnanimously. Moving away from the glossy Web 2.0 look; raw textures, things that make you reach out and touch will gain popularity facilitating an even richer user interface. The clutter of everyday, personable things will continue making an appearance on individual social/portfolio websites making the web a more interesting place to be.
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