This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Chris Fowler
The ignorance of the latest design models can thwart people’s frequent visits and then make companies lose much of the potential segment. In this article, we’ll summarize the top possibly dominant website design trends. However awash with challenges induced by the Covid-19 pandemic, the interminable year 2020 still anticipated the emergence of outstanding web design trends 2021.
1. Top Web Design Trend: 3D
3D technology has a growing permeation in numerous spheres, and web design is no exception. Although 2D design still accounts for some certain shares, the high application of its 3D counterpart cannot be overlooked and seemingly thrives in subsequent years.
Even various eCommerce websites build 3D simulated products to help customers know how their products look in real life. In addition to rendering them more responsive, this future technology motivates user participation in websites.
2. Neumorphism
Following its predecessor, Skeuomorphism, this design approach aims at both pursuing the minimalism style and imitating physicality by overlaying drop shadows.
In other words, this trend applies embossed and debossed patterns to websites, subsequently producing the semi-flat design that looks more realistic than the traditional minimalist trend.
3. Parallax Animation
By definition, parallax refers to the faster movement of foreground objects than background ones when users scroll up and down. When visitors navigate, the depth induced by this method makes them feel like being immersed in the great performance of websites and turns pages into something partly pragmatic.
4. Scrolling Transformations
Therefore, those changes allow users to have more intriguing experiences but collect key information from websites. In 2021, this ongoing trend continues standing out with the evolution of Horizontal Scrolling, Scroll Animations, and Scrollytelling.
Websites become more interactive and accessible rather than merely functioning as the bland machine to connect users with online activities.
5. Illustrations
It comes as a little surprise that cartoon and hand-drawn illustrations have lately evolved and ridden a wave of public interest. Accordingly, designers have leeway to craft unique characters or items that make their brands more personable and consequently leave a lasting impression on visitors.
Conventional websites are filled with words, numerals, and stock photographs, which are occasionally considered monotonous and generic.
6. Comfortable Colors
The digital advancement undoubtedly accompanies the increased time of gluing eyes to screens, albeit large or compact. This is one of the web design trends in 2021 we are anticipating.
To buffer repercussions from this harmful act, web designers aim at comforting the user’s sight with soft color palettes such as warm browns, wholesome greens, or pastel hues instead of dramatic color schemes like dark mode which was an overwhelming trend of the previous year.
7. Minimalism
Staying away from the hustling life, various people are seeking a more peaceful and simpler lifestyle that is reflected in minimalist designs.
Though, this minimalist style is anticipated to expand to other colors but adheres to several certain design principles. It’s not a novel design tendency, yet has so far been associated with much of the whiteness, typically Apple’s website.
8. Gradient Color Scheme
The trend adds more intrigues and visual synergy by creating immersive overlays or backgrounds and building textures for illustrations. The new gradient logo of Instagram received mixed success right after its rebrand in 2016.
Until now, gradient themes have gained popularity and become a new inspiration among web designers and other creatives. Gradient web designs might go with bold typography to emphasize the major content of websites.
9. Video-Embedded Design
Visitors to the website can see the positive aspects of the company culture and track available services. Prevalently used for the website homepage, videos showcase how the company operates or staff members interact.
The combination of graphics, photos, and illustrations is a traditional fashion to convey different messages of brands visually. In addition, companies now tend to integrate pre-recorded videos to the website.
10. Organic and Fluid Shapes
Some web designers could incorporate those abstract shapes with motion effects to produce vivid animations and bring websites to life. This year welcomes the explosion of organic and fluid shapes that topple the impregnable position of geometric shapes.
Going beyond familiar lines or angles, they are tellingly asymmetric and give visitors an extra sense of excitement. Such graphics and shapes might resemble a hill, a leaf, a lava lamp, or any imaginable item.
This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Chris Fowler
Chris Fowler | Sciencx (2021-09-13T07:33:11+00:00) 10 Awesome Web Design Trends for 2021. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2021/09/13/10-awesome-web-design-trends-for-2021/
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