design trends 2015
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- dbloc0
Purple!
- monNom0
blogs with "top 10 something or other, you won't believe" with ads for other blogs with "8 celebrities who something something" with ads for other blogs with "6 incredible holiday whatevers" with ads for other blogs with "You won't believe what this lemur can do" with ads for other blogs with "top 10 something or other, you won't believe" and around and around in a giant banner ad circle-jerk.
But to an even larger degree in 2015
- many bot-written articles for SEO ... maybe time for a browser plugin to detect such crap and flag the URLs?vaxorcist
- georgesIII0
my pic is vocally actived i.o.t,
been prototyping some stuff and I'm amaze how good the voice recognition api has gotten
- organicgrid0
UX will be needed for everything under the sun.
- This comment suggests you don't really understand what ux is********
- "that you"organicgrid
- My comment suggests that even UX folks are not sure what UX is.organicgrid
- lol utopian corrected grammar********
- This comment suggests you don't really understand what ux is
- mg330
I hope we see less app updates for the sake of the company doing something new. I'm baffled at how radically some apps are redesigned at seemingly random times throughout the year. Facebook is one of the worst offenders. So many companies establish UI patterns that become familiar to users and follow conventional expectations, only to completely change them with an update. It's design for design's sake and I am willing to bet that so much of it is done with little to no usability testing or research.
Which brings me to my next point. We were talking at my office about this recently and feel like UX and design research is going to grow in importance in the coming years, both to produce meaningful work and to justify the expense that goes into UX work. I think a lot of designers and agencies have gotten by by simply being creative and taking chances. I think that tons of app makers do exactly that. I think we will see more honest research going into how the average user really goes about using something, and it will be used in even better ways to impact the design.
Kind of a rant here... but I'm sure a lot of designers and agencies and app makers convince themselves that the thing they created is the BEST. The BEST execution on the request they were asked to fulfill. So when I see new versions of sites and apps appear that totally break from what they established, it really boggles me. If they did it right the first time, is there a need to redesign it for a new version? To rearrange a UI just so there's something for someone to do?
I think about this all the damn time. 95% of most well designed sites and apps could stay that way infinitely and work perfectly, with only minimal cosmetic updates. But they'll always be updated, changed, redesigned, and often this breaks what users have become familiar with.
- Google are the worst for random and constant UI/UX updates. Constantly switching things around.********
- Google are the worst for random and constant UI/UX updates. Constantly switching things around.
- moldero0
I'm surprised this whole 'green' thing didn't spark a design dark websites thing to use less power for non lcd monitors, in fact it went the opposite, all sites are white
- you racist mutha.organicgrid
- it doesn't use less energy on new monitors though does it********
- nb0
^ White sites don't use more energy, unless your using CRT. Who still uses CRT? It's the light in your screen that use most of the energy, so it doesn't matter if the screen is white.
You could argue that a high contrast, large-print website would reduce energy, because people might turn their device brightness down (to save battery) if they can easily read the site.
- horton0
*renames thread:
"WEBdesign trends 2015"
yawn.
- dbloc0
- I'm feeling the name "Public Voice" so out of context...organicgrid
- MrT0
I predict we'll all realise we're just part of the capitalist machine and pondering trends is like deciding whether to use a knife or a gun to kill a baby seal.
- yurimon0
- Webdesign turned fashion design:
who wore the color "fairytale dream best?"Peter - Yo momma got cobblestone path skidmarks.Frosty_spl
- Webdesign turned fashion design:
- i_monk0
Web:
• runaway app bloat
• increased barriers to access in the name of driving up enrollmentVideo/motion:
• object-tracking camera work
• terrible Too Many Cooks/Unedited Footage of A Bear/Don't Hug Me I'm Scared imitatorsPrint/identity:
• stencils- web#2 big time! SIGN UP SIGN UP SIGN UP. I blame UX designersmonNom
- cannonball19780
Some changes in the monetization of design. Less VC funded schemes.
More homegrown pay as you go services.
More diversification of designer's tools.
More of a schism between design that is less interested in satisfying business goals, and design that does stuff for a large corporation.
Less agencies. More in-house.
More designers pretending that if they talk a lot about design and blog about it that they will be famous designers.
More designers who just design process for other designers.Things like this exacerbating a design meta-crisis.
Designers moving into rural areas, and consequently caring about different sorts of design problems.
- im not seeing blogging about anything as prolific as it once wastrooperbill
- I think the day of the "famous" designer is long gone (just like Flash! ha)formed
- necromation0
More cats... Black cats, fat gays, small cats... Just loads more cats.
I hate fucking cats...
- necromation0
and apparently 'fat gays' according
to my iphone...
- instrmntl0
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