Current Web Design
Trends
2010
Current Design Trends of 2010
1. Hugeness
2. Hand Drawn Sites
3. Creative Typography
4. Interactive Design
5. Retro
6. Minimalism
7. Change of Perspective
8. Intro Boxes
Current Design Trends of 2010
Hugeness
• Huge Headers
• Huge Logos
• Huge Footers
• Huge Images
• The idea? – to stand out and make people remember who you are!
Current Design Trends of 2010
Hand Drawn Sites
• Sketched Art
• Hand Written Text
• The idea? – Sketch will be used to better personalize websites.
Current Design Trends of 2010
Creative Typography
• Use fonts to your creative advantage
• Huge Typography catches the user’s attention
• Main idea? – Typography plays a major part in setting the tone
and theme of your site!
Current Design Trends of 2010
Interactive Design
• Flash may go away eventually, but not anytime soon!
• HTML5 will increase interactive design
• Main Idea? – Surfing the web will be entertaining as well as
informative
• Nike Air
• Crowley Webb
Current Design Trends of 2010
Retro
• Old school is cool
• Portrays the VINTAGE feel
• Retro Design is not going away
Current Design Trends of 2010
Minimalism
• Harder to pull off
• Use white space to your advantage!
• Professional feel
• Main Idea? - Less will always be more
Current Design Trends of 2010
Change of Perspective
• Current/Future Trend
• Do not do a desktop perspective
• Main Idea? – Stand out from the crowd by giving the user a
new perspective
Current Design Trends of 2010
Intro Boxes Hi! I’m an intro box that loves
introducing myself.
• Sums up who you are in 1 to 2 lines
• Allows for your personality to shine through
• Catchy phrases in odd places will become a norm
• Main Idea? – Intro boxes allow you catch user’s attention with
creative ways to say Hello!