
Down below we have listed 5 important designing trends we believe every designers should take advantage of in order to stay always ahead of the curve.
1.Mobile-First Approach

Consumers who use their mobile devices for online shopping and social networking, always expect a new level of performance and function on their mobile devices as they find it harder to read in-depth content in smaller devices. This analysis compelled companies to put handheld devices at the forefront of both strategy and implementation. Designers also started to employ less screen real estate by introducing greater breadth to user experience with the use of more popular mobile features like touch and geolocation. Considering the fact that hierarchy of the content may change based on the constraints of the device, designers wireframe and prototypes vigorously before finalizing on a design.
2.Responsive Design
With the advent of new devices with new capabilities and limitations and Google constantly updating its preferences about the way it looks at websites, responsive designs are now a part and parcel of web designing.
3.UI and Design framework

Material Design, Google’s visual language was rolled out across all of Google’s platforms, including Chrome OS and The Web to create a unified look that binds all of its product together. Google’s Material design is essentially a way of designing by creating a hierarchy of importance on the page. The brand incorporated material response with motion and made the transitions very intuitive. The responsive animations are inspired by how ink spreads on paper.
Designers are mostly looking for frameworks that has grid and card UI systems as cards can size and grids can restructure to fit any screen size. Bootstrap, Material- CSS, Foundation, Semantic UI and JavaScript MVC are few of their choice of framework to work on.
4.Typography

Bold and big typography can evoke emotion, create a brand’s personality and set a tone. Due to the shrinkage of visual span typography hierarchy has become very important in all design fields. Size and weight of the fonts can easily indicate which words or letters are important. Designers also use contrast between colors and images to create an impact.
5.Authentic Photography
As majority of websites look strikingly similar, standing out of competition has become more important than ever. Consumers wants to relate with the business or the company and when they visit the website to know more about the brand, they expect authentic information to be provided to them.
A wave of transformation can be perceived where we see slowly and steadily canned or stock photos are being replaced by bespoke photography. Brand and designers are conscious about the images they use on the website. Professional photographers are called upon to click pictures for the brands which are then being used across all channels. Thus, to produce more creative branded content and to become visually diverse, brands are heavily using authentic photography as a strong medium.
These are just to name a few. In the coming post we will show some interesting visual effects we believe are trending in 2017!
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