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Web Design Trends in 2011

The web has changed dramatically in 2010. For the first time, there is a mandatory place for mobile devices on the web. For more than 8 years, mobile devices required special websites, special browsers and adapted writing. The iphone changed all that.

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Now users of mobile devices expect the same level of service that a regular web browser provides. The web has become more of a passageway of traffic than a reading mechanism. Every day in 2011, millions of people use the internet to make calls, and find restaurants. They do it from handhelds.

They also do it from iPads. With all this going on, what are the latest design trends? We have all seen that less is more as the web reduces to a medium that can be seen by both mobile devices and wired computers. Take a look at Facebook and Twitter. What do you notice? Less is more for these websites.

2010 and 2011 in websites means streamlined, websites without the bells and whistles that became popular in the 1990s. Back then it was very popular to have websites with animations , redundant and bloated code and many other things that don’t matter. In 2011, websites have gotten smarter. Psychologists have educated designers to the fact that the customer can be steered by less items on a page. This breakthrough became public knowledge about 3 years ago. Pages immediately slimmed down. Less meant more.

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Within 2 years, the most effective pages had less than 3 critical elements on them. Designers are using softer colors and pages are taking on a pastel revolution of minimalism. The best example of this is the Twitter website. The color choices exemplify this concept and the focus for mobile devices gives us a hint to the future of the internet.

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Mobile websites like Twitter will be an example of what success in the future will look like. Success in the future will be measured in the tens of millions of users. A website with 100,000 users will be considered “small”. Mobile devices will give us a freedom that the old internet could never provide. Unchained from the past, these trends will transcend the human condition.

Web Design Trends in 2011

As every single aspect of the web goes mobile, we can expect to see a mobile version of YouTube as soon as every mobile device is able to process and run Youtube video. So we can expect that as time goes on,  these trends to continue and our web will become more mobile.Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)

Ben Rama

Ben Rama is a Graphic Designer, CG artist & Cinematographer from London. He is the founder & creative director at Digital Art Empire Find Ben on Twitter