Hi everyone,

 

I know in this site are have many great web designers, so i need you to share your ideas about the web design trends in the next 2-3 year, in my opinion web design template will be more clean style and not too much effect (like a retro design), what's your idea?

Well we've recently been bombarded with what has been named 'Web 2.0' and as a result, have seen many websites/start ups cropping up displaying vibrant colours, badges, stripes, rounded corners, ribbons etc etc etc. The whole 'Web 2.0' craze however, is seemingly starting to come to an end. Some designers are starting to break away from the Web 2.0 design mould and are starting to bring Grunge back into fashion. Elliot Jay Stocks is a great example of this. Opting not to conform to the current trends set in Web Design, but rather attempting to start his own.

 

I think the next phase after the whole Web 2.0 design trends will be grunge, as many designers seem to be jumping on the band wagon. We'll have to wait and see how things pan out.

I've already seen a grunge trend. Didn't last long. I feel websites are going to look more and more corporate and will eventually get very boring as accessibility seems to be key. The more complex websites are getting (i.e. the Web 2.0 revolution!), the easier they need to be to navigate.

I was thinking about this last night, I've got a blog in the works (watch this space ) and scrapped the idea after I realized I was just following current trends with the design. I tried to make something unique for my portfolio and I think I somewhat did, now I want to do something completely different for my blog.

Web 2.0 just means you can release an unfinished site with a "beta" label on your header as a finished site.

 

But joking a side, the idea of web 2.0 was about the user actions that the site offers. It is seen as user participation, not just a user reading content and that is the key idea. The "web 2.0" design thing in my opinion is just a fad as opposed to what I would call web 2.0.

 

Designs should be centric to the site you are working on. If they correlate to the "web 2.0" trend then so be it, but you shouldn't blindly follow it for the hell of it.

^ That could be said about any trend really.

I think the web will go more Copy , Typography based. Minimal images and paired with javascript and sites that will wow but at the same time being minimal

I reckon the future has got to be in given more control to users. Web 2.0 was all about bringing interactivity I reckon the next step will be in handing control from the website owners to the users. That is, not just interaction but real control. The trend is toward providing more and more ways for people to get the content they want, how and when they want it. Every new thing that comes out seems to be about 'mashing-up' the internet, blurring the distinction between desktop and browser and providing streams of content from all over.

I reckon technology will continue to develop powerful tools that will make it easy to 'chunkify' content - the kind of thing hinted at by things like PopFly and the w3c's HTML 5 draft version. I can see things like the opensource movement, social media and the move toward a 'Semantic Web' coming together making the web a more tangled thing - where sites blur and users pick from 'content streams'.

So I think design in the future will be more about crafting 'chunks' of content that can be customised, re-purposed, integrated and 'streamed' according to the user's wants. Design could be more about creating these portals and 'branding' the content 'chunks' to give them identity. And users will get more control over customising designs and 'bolting' together 'content streams'.

 

Or not of course! Just my rambling thoughts of a mind freed of the shackles of knowing anything about design!!!!

Google will take over the internet and every page will look like google Just kidding,

 

I think design's will become more personal. The typical template looks won't be enough to grab you viewers attention. You need to be unique and still remain user friendly.

I don't know. I there there are multiple trends here. We have the clean valid XHTML and CSS looking sites. They tend to be more bland but function a whole lot better. Then you have the trendy Web 2.0 sites that are bubbly and/or grunge. Other than Eggman's awesome site, I haven't really experienced a Web 2.0 site that hasn't been bug ridden in some way. I'm more of the mantra to make sites less user interactive and more usable as an information space/billboard. I do agree with having forms and some interactivity, but a lot of small businesses (which is the type of business I'm going after) don't have the budget to do Web 2.0 functionality. With that in mind a lot of them don't even want that functionality.

 

I think the style of the site really depends on what the user wants and their style. I am making a more grunge site for an artist right now but it's not that Web 2.0.

 

Cheers

 

I agree that "mashups" are going to become more and more prevalent (especially with Google buying everything in sight) but I don't think the vast majority of the Internet will ever move away from how it is now. The one thing that's been the same since the start is the content!

 

Oh.. and earlier in the thread I said I wanted to try and make something unique, I think I've done it.

 

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