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Some of our favourite UI website designs from Instagram right now. Stunning simplicity and visuals 👌🏼
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Geometric and organic shapes.
Colourful shapes are being used on more and more of the top designed sites this year.
With continued improvements in web design technology, it’s become easier for designers to step outside the grid to express brand identity. Many designers are using circles, triangles, and rotated squares to draw users’ attention and communicate subtle messages about the brand.
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Retro/Outline Type
Retro vibes have been slowly creeping back into the world of design.
Retro and outlined typography will be one of the most dominant web design trends of 2019. When well-executed, the outlines act as shapes, meaning the type plays a role in boosting your visual composition.
... Often times, you will see the outlines interact with other elements of the page such as the background, images, or a simple hover effect.
Although it might be harder from a technical point of view, avoid adding any copy as an image as this will affect your SEO. Use CSS and Javascript to create your styling and effects.
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Curated visuals.
A powerful illustration can communicate volumes and is more versatile than a photograph. Often when teams debate the choice of an image, certain members might favour lifestyle shots while other favour product shots. Illustrations can be a happy medium.
Here are a few additional benefits of curated visuals:
... • Unique and authentic
• Make abstract concepts easier to understand (like software)
• Help reduce the prominence of gender and race when illustrating people
• Avoid showcasing unrelated brands (cars, computers, buildings)
• Can quickly portray powerful emotions.
The more you know about your audience and the message you’re trying to convey, the easier it is for your team to curate the proper visual.
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Authentic tones and textures.
Consumers want to stand behind authentic brands. Period.
In a recent study: “86 percent of consumers said authenticity is important when deciding what brands they like and support”.
... Although this isn’t a new trend per se, its pervasiveness in web design is definitely increasing. Incorporating this trend into your designs might be easier than you think.
Here are a few tips:
• Use images of real lifestyle occurrences, natural textures, and colours that we find in our everyday lives;
• Use the flat lay technique to help visitors see things through your perspective;
• Take your own photographs - avoid generic stock images.
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New ways of displaying website copy;
Designers know that a wall of text won’t help visitor engagement.
For years, designers have been using whitespace, line spacing, and contrasting fonts to help users digest the message displayed on a website.
... In 2019, designers are playing an even bigger role when it comes to communicating online by:
• Working with copywriters and marketers to reduce the amount of text • Adding visuals to help support fewer words • Using fonts, layout, style, formatting, and animations to help legibility
The biggest challenge is getting multiple stakeholders to agree on copy. The easiest way to get concise and powerful copy is by writing more and then reducing down to the essentials, instead of trying to come up with something perfect right away.
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Minimalistic asymmetrical layouts.
Because of outside influence, we are often asked to add more than we’d like to a design, and our instincts tend to guide our layout into symmetrical grids.
In design though, less is often more and asymmetry can be powerful and eye-catching.
... This is precisely why minimalistic asymmetrical layouts are among the most difficult design styles to execute.
Although challenging, the process of eliminating non-essential elements results in a cleaner, more focused design. A firm understanding of layering, proportion, and whitespace is key to this technique.
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For a while, soft tones and monotone had taken over design. However, it seems like this trend is fading away.
This year, users are craving high contrast and vibrant colours.
Take a look at the latest collections in fashion design: bright neons, metallics and angular shapes have made a comeback.
... Now more than ever, companies are using bold bright colours to better represent the company brand, Warmer tones such as purple, blue, golden yellow, and green can help evoke emotion.
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Awesome day delivering our Santander UK social media masterclass at Linda Lewis Kitchens Ltd with McKellens.
Fantastic businesses involved & good fun making Pizza with the amazing Fabio!
If you would like to hold a similar event get in touch with us or Linda Lewis Kitchens
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How Diversity And Inclusion Drive Business Value.
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Take a closer look at type and font and explore how utilizing font psychology directly impacts user behavior:
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‪Truly standout team and company culture is about more than beer in the fridge and a ping pong table. Here's why you need to take an intentional approach to designing your own design culture:
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Our latest blog is now available on our website.
Top Website Design Trends of 2019!
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Minimalism is not just about boiling down certain graphic elements into their simplest form, but knowing which elements to keep, which elements will still work without having to explain them and how to use them - - Designer Carolyn Brandt took a simplistic approach in re-designing six Kelloggs packs and distilling them to their bare graphics, yet recognizable elements. Imagine seeing these in the cereal aisles today. Done in 2015 yet relevant
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