Web Design Trends 2010

Web Design trends for this year came from the emergence of the new CSS3 and HTML5, Textured backgrounds, drop shadows, rounded corners, RGBA transparency, to modal boxes designers came up with a set of new design trends that took us nicely into 2010

1. Big Headers, Introductions and Huge Images

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2. Rich Texturized Backgrounds

3. Sleek, Eye-Popping Icons!

4. Full Screen Background Images and Videos

5. Typography Based Websites

More Trends Coming Your Way…

Modal boxes/light boxes – Great ways to keep the user on the same page, basically replacing those annoying pop-up windows, but so much better! Triggered by a user action they are a great way to bring up extra information that serves to enhance the user experience.

Grid Based Web Design – Grids are the new canvas. Here we will see more and more websites being driven by grids, with clean easy to view layouts, grids will shape the sites to come.

Carousels – Originally used for just images, these nifty carousels are now being used in for much more! Breaking out of tradition, people using carousels are able to integrate information, videos, and images in a more creative way.

Ribbons, Retro, Handwriting and Watercolor – How many sites out there have you seen using one of these elements? Ribbons that break out of the normal navigation and create a depth for the user are being used much more frequently. As is handwriting elements, typography or illustrations integrated into the interface giving it a nice personal touch. Watercolor splashes here and there, from backgrounds to navigations to adding texture to the page, watercolors’ are here in 2010, but will they still be big at the end of the year amongst all the other competition?

Mobile Website Designs – Starting to become something big, mobile websites are emerging as a whole new playground for people to design new exciting layouts on. With a smaller interface and different set of users controls (swiping for touch screens), designers are faced with not only the prospect of designing an intuitive website but a mobile site as well.