Latest trends in website design: III

1. Well designed micro interactions:

Microinteractions refer to contained product moments that have a single main task. You engage with a micro interaction every time you change a setting, sync your data or devices, set an alarm, pick a password, log in, set a status message or like or react to something on a social media site. Well-designed micro interactions can be defining because they’re simple yet powerful.

Microinteractions

2. Long scrolling:

Long scrolling changes UX design, proposing more narrative approaches and simpler interaction models. It makes navigation easier, eliminating the extra clicks mandatory to uncover the desired content. Long scrolling allows eye-catching transitions and differentiated section designs transform into a delightful process of discovery rather than a monotonous one.

Long scrolling

3. Exemption of flyout menu:

Flyout menus are inefficient in that they add an extra step to the process of navigating a site. Also, from a usability standpoint, flyout menus have their problems. They conceal a site’s breadth, thereby restricting individual page’s context and place within the larger whole.

Flyout

4. Introduction to desktop push notifications:

In the case of mobile devices, no matter where you are or what you’re doing, it’s very hard to ignore that little notification beep. Inspired buy this, many websites are trying to bring that power to the desktop as well. This usually manifests as a little modal-like element sliding down from the top of the browser, asking you if the site can send you desktop notifications as soon as the site loads.

Desktop notifications

5. Artistic use of types:

According to the latest trends, text is showing up in the form of masks, where letters are cut out of an image, flipping the traditional text-overlay approach. With the increased access to typographic choices Google Fonts and Adobe Typekit offer, it has been proved that combining font sizes can have a huge impact on the look and organization of a page. Single words can take up an entire page. Using vastly different sized fonts creates a hierarchy which in turn supports people in their efforts to understand a website and find the content they are looking for.