Latest web design trends for 2018

The age of digital medium has made web designing or simply designing a simpler task but at the same time more complex and dynamic. The traditional designing techniques look very obsolete and ancient today. However, it is almost 18 years since the advent of digital technology and today more and more innovations and cutting-edge technology is being invented. What is astonishing is the way web designers have unrelentingly coped with mounting technical challenges and still managed to make sites that are user-friendly, comprehensible and pioneering, dependable with the corporate style, pliable to every imaginable device and just plain beautiful all at once.

The year 2017 saw a number of advancements and also saw mobile overtaking desktop usage and web designs started evolving keeping this in mind. We are going to see the full utilization of mobile functions in 2018. The desktop also has not lost its relevance and is also evolving according to changing times. Let us check some notable web design trends coming poised to take over in 2018.

Drop shadows and depth

The concept of shadows is not a new concept but with new developments, web designers have been able to create a number of exciting variations. Shadows have been a common ingredient of web design but the development of web browsers has afforded a number of exciting variations.  Web designers use a number of tools such as grids and parallax layouts to play with shadows to create depth and the illusion of a world beyond the screen. The trend of flat design is now history.

Web Designers now play with shadows to create a number of surprisingly resourceful effects that increases not only the aesthetics of a web page but also promotes User Experience (UX) by providing emphasis.

To be continued