Designing your website is all about looking into the future to see which colours, themes, and fonts will trailblaze you through to popularity. Though important, your user’s experience on your site isn’t solely based on its functionality and speed, your aesthetics matter too! Keeping up with modern trends is vital for keeping your website fresh and pleasant to use. If you’re looking to build or revamp the design of a website, check out this list of some of 2022’s biggest web design trends so far!

Rad Retro

As the internet progresses into the future, the past six decades live on! The web designers of 2022 are bringing these times back through colour, font, and fun 90’s stickers with the added bonus of over 20 years of collected design experiences.

Hero Headers

On the opening page of a website, the visitors will be greeted by a statement. This eliminates imagery and allows your message to carry the weight of the visitor’s first impression of your company. They command attention in a similar way to captivating news headlines while providing a memorable showcase for some modern and creative letter formats.

Hand-Drawn Graphics

Hand-drawn art has become one of the most popular and unique web design trends. This trend has been adopted by many different website designers and using these elements to attract an audience is a great idea. By creating these doodles, you are adding a personal touch to your business and letting the audience know a little bit more about your company!

Minimalism

The more features and content you can reduce, the less your audience will have to deal with, meaning a smoother, simpler user experience and no confusing menus or indecipherable sitemaps. With a more engaging, less stressful experience, your customers will likely want to stay longer. If minimalism is done well, you create a positive experience for users. 

Animated Content

Animation has become a creative, trendy, and user-friendly method in web design. It helps with engagement and can hold people’s attention longer than a still webpage. Making your website interactive/animated can also help trigger a positive emotional response. Whether your website is being viewed by children, teens, or adults, adding animated content can help to distract the user while the content loads making it seem to run faster leading to them staying on your website for longer.

It is difficult to predict the exact future of web design, but the one thing we know for sure is that user-centred designing is vital for a successful website. Trends will come and go, but if you have a well-designed site with easy access for your customers, you’ll build a strong community leading more viewers every day.

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