As has become norm ever since the Internet became our best friend, just like the changing of the season, everything on the Internet changes. Trends get set only for them to be looked back on with nostalgia and at times, a certain level of cringe, as they are happily replaced with new ones. So if fashion and food can have their own trends, why can’t websites?

With each passing year, the visualization and conceptualization behind website design has reached greater heights. From evoking reactions, to having effects that leave the viewer awe-struck, websites and their designs are upping the game each chance they get. No idea, no dream seems too far-fetched and creators are truly testing the boundaries of how far their imagination can fly and just how much can they tweak the concept of a conventional website.

So what are designers eyeing to conceptualize and make true a reality? What re ideas that might very well become visions? For now, just as embark on this New Year, designers and engineers across the globe predict –

• Inclusive Design Mania
• ScrollyTelling
• Horizontal Scrolling
• Brutalist Typography
• Typography Animation/Kinetic Typography
• Nostalgia
• Contrast Colours
• Off the Grid
• Imagery Multilayers
• Delight

With Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence becoming key aspects of every day use when immersed in the digital world, it should come as no surprise then that these would be essential considerations for designers across the globe. Although, at this particular stage in time, they seem accessible only on and through mobile applications, it is only a matter of time before these are successfully incorporated into more engaging and enrapturing website designs.

We’ve come a long way from binary coding and we stand today at the precipice of change, where pixel by pixel, the world of website design shall be revolutionized!