web design trends 2014
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- mg330
@monkeyshine - what do you see them evolving into?
- GeorgesII0
personally, this year I'm going to try to sell projects that exits the web and enter the real world, I know it's been done before but mainly they are short term project,
I'm currently working on something that will be based on the net but which would have a permanent "booth" around the city, lets see how it goes
- inteliboy0
I don't know what it's called, but when is this style of website going to end?
http://www.lemonade.com.au/
http://www.whistle.com/
http://www.moresleep.net/
https://www.involvio.com/
etc...nice design here, don't get me wrong. But shit... every second site these days has this exact same layout.
- mg330
intelliboy,
It will stop as soon as mass-market theme developers and designers start doing things differently, or as soon as customers without the know-how to design and build sites from scratch stop using those themes.
That said, most that I see in that style I like. In many cases for a business's site, it's nice to see layouts that are similar so that I don't have to go and figure out some "unique" page, and I can more quickly focus on the content.
- meffid0
intelliboy–
All the info on one scrollable page?
The awful with the above examples is just poor content and writing, shit wordpress, and always done badly.
The framework generally just works, is responsive, is easy, makes sense, tells a story, communicates well... etc.
It won't be 'going to end' any time soon.
- vaxorcist0
I have no issue with 1-page sites is the content is there... and agree with mg33 that sometimes simple and familiar can be good design... far better than unique and confusing and unclear.... especially for a business...
Issue for me is that "the easy part is getting even easier but the hard part is still hard"... i.e. laying something out in a CMS is the easy part, and the part that some clients think is "the work" whereas the hard part, i.e. thinking of a clear message and delivering words and images and structure is less "obviously work" and hence is often shoe-horned into a mass-market theme.... to look "done" in a day or so, when you really do have to let the idea cook for a little while and percolate into something good.... short cuts tend to show....
- monkeyshine0
@mg33 - I see more interactive wires or prototypes taking the place of static wireframes. Flat wires do not illustrate interaction behavior and the time and code involved in creating something like Axure prototypes is cumbersome.
I think we will see the evolution of software like Macaw (http://macaw.co/) that will provide a better way to demonstrate responsive and other interaction patterns. If Macaw can produce clean enough code, it can also be used throughout the process (unlike Axure where what is produced is not usable by Dev).
- i_monk0
intelliboy – Sites/templates like that surged following the release of the iPad (and other tablets); suddenly everything needed to be big and chunky and scrolly for tablets. Once people stop giving a shit about tablets those sites will be redesigned.
- mg330
monkeyshine,
I agree on that. I've been including even small interactive parts in wireframes to share with internal teams and it really makes a difference. The problem is that, still, most clients are going to get a PDF of the wires and that interactivity is not going to work. One of the fun parts of my job right now is trying to help our UX team modernize some things, and especially make our documentation look a lot nicer.
I started using a nice stencil set in Omnigraffle in for user flows. Check these out if you've not seen them:
http://uxkits.com/products/emd-w…My idea is that this is the main place that "static" pages would appear, either in a flow or sitemap or combination of both. Then the wire pages themselves have interactivity and such.
I'll have to check out Macaw for sure.
- WeLoveNoise0
FLASH!!!