Web design trends for 2014

Summary

Web design in 2014 is heavily influenced by the proliferation of mobile devices, making responsive design a fundamental requirement, while flat design continues its strong presence. Developers can expect to leverage innovative CSS features like custom shapes for content flow, advanced animations for app-like transitions, and interactive 3D models. The increasing bandwidth and HTML5 video support also enable full-width video backgrounds, adding a significant "wow factor" to sites. Furthermore, designers are exploring advanced scrolling techniques, moving beyond parallax to include horizontal, column-based, and infinite scrolling experiences. These trends collectively highlight a push towards more dynamic, visually rich, and device-agnostic web interfaces.

Now, it's age of web, many resource and manpower have been invested in web to extend and enhance the capability of web. Every year there are new web designs and technologies emerging. In recent years, with the popularity of handhold devices such as smart phones and smart devices like iPads,Surface, responsive design is becoming a requirement, also we can find flat design in many places. The web design trend is changing dramatically. Many people may wonder what's the web design trend in 2014?

Jowita Ziobro web designer at Delighten shares her predictions on the web design trend in 2014. These include some innovative use of CSS, 3D, video.

CSS Shapes


Support for CSS shapes allows designers to flow content around any shape they like - not just rectangular DIVs.

 
Expect this to become very fashionable once browser support is in place (you can enable this now, if you want).

CSS animation

The gap between web pages and mobile apps is closing. We're moving towards iOS / Android-like transitions between pages, smoothly animated UI components and more.

Websites with video backgrounds

Coulee Creative

As bandwidth increases, and with HTML5 video all but standard, video is being used for full width backgrounds. They certainly have a wow factor, although they're not very suitable for mobile yet.


3D CSS


It's now possible to create interactive 3D models entirely in CSS. Expect to see this for product previews and more.


Flat design


Flat design continues to be the #1 design trend recently, with big companies such as Microsoft or Apple setting the standard. It's not likely to go away in 2014.

Advanced scrolling websites

Robby Leonardi

We've all seen parallax scrolling, but now we have horizontal scrolling, column-based scrolling, infinite scrolling and far more bizarre concepts besides.

It may not be very usable, but it certainly looks cool.

WEB DESIGN TREND 2014

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samhey
Jun 2, 2014 at 2:50 am

there are more kinds of design trend in all the world

NightCat
Jun 2, 2014 at 6:22 am

Any example? Please feel free to share. Thanks