The Latest Trends of Web Development in 2015

Web design and development techniques, from the day one to the present day, have undergone enormous changes.Great web designs are undoubtedly based more on creativity and artistic feelings than on scientific formulas. New design patterns are innovated, existing ones modified and the forgotten ones reappear. Professionals refer these as design trends and react greatly to them. Let us focus on some of the top prevailing web trends and those waiting in queue for the future. 

Top Web Design Trends of 2015:

•  Mobile first responsive design: As people are using smart phones and mobile devices for browsing websites, web designers naturally have to concentrate on mobile first designs. With various screen sizes in practice, ‘responsive design with more emphasis on mobile’ is the popular requirement which can satisfy the demand.
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•  Grid based layouts have come to stay. They offer the user maximum flexibility as well as a trendy appearance. Developers can very easily create responsive websites using this layout. They are ideal for websites that have lots of content lists.

•  Design for Small Data Apps is becoming popular in times of the popular Big Data.Introduction of simple and small apps like asking for ‘yes or no’ questions are very much appreciated by everyone; the user and the developer. They serve the purpose and help for many other things.

•   Scroll over Click also is the upcoming trend in the history of web development. This eliminates a number of web pages and features. When the developer sticks on scrolling and limits the usage of clicking, the result will be a fantastic ‘simple’ website. 

• Story telling design pattern in other names, the use of parallax is on the rise. Web designers and web developers like to incorporate Parallax within their creation for so many reasons of their own. It offers a great platform for integrating content, animation and graphical features successfully and to deliver an interesting story to the user. The section wise format and the single page concentration are the highlights of Parallax making it the favourite for the web designers.

• Decrease in Popups is the new trend from 2014 onwards. Due to increased usage of smart phones and apps, web designers do not require pop ups naturally. Even desktop users do not like the pop up and hence it is on the decreasing side. Pop ups are considered as disturbances and nuisances.

• Ghost buttons, another popular trend that goes well with the flat UI design. It supports two dimensional and single color backgrounds. These buttons provide smart appearance with colorfully bordered boxes, extra padding and rounding corners. They are ideal for minimalist layouts and can be easily integrated with any type of design patterns.

• Feature List Icons can be found on the homepage in a variety of forms using text blocks and graphics combined with small icons. The use of small icons that introduce the feature has become a popular trend. Lots of mobile apps have come out those supplies interesting feature list icons.

• Slideshows and galleries have become easier for the web designers to include them wherever they want in their mobile responsive design. JQuery supplies the necessities for easy addition of galleries and slideshows and is quite efficient till now. Digital media are very commonly expected by everyone in all pages of the site and in apps. Hence, designers have to figure out the suitable method to add digital media in almost all pages.

• CSS3 Animations are fast picking up nowadays. Very delicate animations on buttons and off screen elements are welcome by most of the web population. These animations provide awareness about the start of the movement and about its returning position. This prevents the sudden and the magical appearance of animations which may irritate the user. CSS animations also has taken a more in-depth shape with the Google's material design principles.

Predictions & Future Web Design Trends:

•             Emergence of Rails apps for the performance based web apps will raise to its maximum height.
•             Using dynamic languages for web development is coming to a stop.
•             Node.JS apps will get into problems.
•             Go will soon emerge as the powerful programming language that easily fits in this cloud era.
•             Java and .Net will rule over the medium to large enterprise apps, but will fail with web development.

  Web designers and developers are facing a great challenge in their field since they are the people who have to supply the prolific king demand of web browsing in various devices. From the desktop computers to the wearable digital devices, people like to use the internet and browse the websites. The coming years will be tough, one of the designers and the trends will be changing fast to cope up with new devices.