Website Design Trends to be expected in 2015

Every year we are going to expect some new trends, whatever it is. Likewise, in web design, some new trends, techniques & technologies implemented every year to make a website more comfortable to use in smart devices. Actually, web design is a continuously changing trend. In 2014, some of the trends we used mostly are:

Typography

Typography is the technique of putting texts/types in an orderly manner to make it more visible, attractive and readable. In other words, typography is the art of working with texts, graphically.

UI Flat Design

In web design, flat UI design is an emerging concept which is being used in many websites now-a-days. This technique mainly focuses on content and provides a basic design with less distracting elements. Basic design with fewer images can load faster, which helps mainly for whom having slow internet connection with a mobile design. Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS 7, Google’s Gmail, Facebook, and Windows 8 are all examples of interfaces that have implemented flat UI.

Fixed Header Bar

Most of the websites header bar is not fixed, so when you scroll down it would disappear. If you want to see further information about their product/services, you need to scroll to top of the page and click the respective menu in the header bar. With longer webpage’s and mobile browsers, accessing that menu becomes more difficult. For this reason, many sites will fix the header bar at the top of the browser window, allowing it to follow visitors as they scroll down the page. Having a navigation that remains fixed to the top of the browser window lets readers quickly access the menu. It helps the visitor to dive deeper into the site more easily.

Bootstrap

Twitter Bootstrap is a more powerful front-end framework for faster and easier development of responsive and mobile-first websites. It includes HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The major advantage of using Twitter Bootstrap is that it comes with free set of tools for creating flexible and responsive web layouts as well as common interface components.

Infographics

Infographics (Information Graphics) are a graphical visual representation of information or data to present complex information more quickly and clearly. Collections of information showing in a design way, that's not only informative, but looks good, so that humans can understand more quickly about the trends or topic.

SVG images

SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is an image format for vector graphics. It is an XML-based vector image format for two-dimensional graphics with support for interactivity and animation. It allows three types of graphic objects: vector graphics, raster graphics and text. SVG is supported in all modern browsers and some previous version browsers.

Some advantages of using SVG are it scales to any size without losing clarity, Small file sizes that compress well, and so on.

And lots more…

More design trends are implemented in the year 2014. But, we discussed above are the most important techniques used in web design. More other techniques, trends are implemented in previous years, but these trends have a slight modification from the previous one, like responsive web design, SaaS, Flat & responsive together, etc.        

In 2015, businesses need to have websites that work well on the aforementioned devices plus smart watches, TVs, home appliances and even cars, to name a few. I’m sure the list of devices that can stream content from the web will be even longer in a year. The responsive world we knew in 2015 is rapidly expanding. Trends in 2015 can be briefly discussed in the upcoming blogs.