With a year as tumultuous and life-changing as 2020, design will be forever changed, and we will likely see trends emerging in response to this year for several years to come. We don’t know what those trends will be, but we can take a pretty good guess at what graphic design trends will look like for the upcoming year.
With quickly emerging trends, it is crucial to come back down to earth and remind ourselves of visual design fundamentals. Trends come and go, so you don’t always have to use them nor understand them, but the fundamentals were, are, and will always be here, so let’s not forget about them and get them right!
We can simply document what is visible, including any known context. Grouping products (or interface elements, to begin with) by context, be it: theme, topic, date, place within a product, product type, location, company size, evolution, etc. can actually lead to an interesting archive of what is created within our field.
I reflected on this with another DWP front-end developer James Gordon when we were talking about front-end principles.
We broadly split it down into accessible, agnostic, robust, performant, and secure.
Whether you’re working on a photo, sketch or 3D scene, a project goes through many phases and ideas as the project evolves. Snowtrack simplifies file version handling of graphic projects so you can focus on your work. Go back to former versions and get rid of cluttered project directories.
Web design is intended to provide high consumer characteristics and aesthetic qualities. How long the visitor will be on the site depends on how understandable, adaptive, and attractive it will be. It usually takes less than 15 seconds for a user to figure out if they have opened the right site. Accordingly, web design and site usability have a direct impact on conversion rates.
In part three of our series we’ll look at how to create more interesting shapes with trigonometry, and how to draw them with the Canvas API.
If you really want to create a design that will make people look, it has to be disruptive.
While “disruptive” can be a bit of a hackneyed catchphrase, it is also at the core of what you do when you create something new. The goal is to get people to stop, look, and interact.
Figma has a lot of advantages compared to Adobe XD or Sketch. It's a browser-based interface design tool that is cross-platform and works in any browser and OS, providing the ideal environment for real-time collaboration with other designers and team members.
Apart from its collaborative functionalities and its capacity to create interactive prototypes, export code, graphics and complete layouts, with the help of plugins, Figma can extend its features further - such as the automation of time-consuming tasks.
Combine & mix thousands of vector icons to get unlimited creative icon packs.
