Design Trends Going Out of Style

Posted by Oliver James on November 15th, 2019

Cohesive and beautiful web design is very important for the success of a website. Companies pay web designers a lot of money to get an ideal design for their websites. The designers use a lot of web design elements to ensure that the website’s look is in line with the company’s image. Like all other fields, web designing has also seen a lot of change in the last decade or so. Numerous trends that were considered essential for the success of a website’s design have now become obsolete. In this article, we will have a look at the design trends that are quickly going out of style in the web design world.

Pop-Up Messages

Pop-up messages were never an ideal design element, to begin with. They are annoying and seem intrusive to the user. However, they were considered necessary because they provided the business with the chance to get the email address and contact details of the visitors. It was seen by marketers as a way to get leads. In this day and age, when people get easily frustrated, pop-up messages can cause most users to move away from your website. They won’t even bother to remain on the website and thus won’t fill out the form suddenly appearing on the screen. Nowadays, live chat is seen as a viable alternative for pop-up messages as it seems less intrusive and can still get the visitors to leave their email IDs.

Carousels and Image Sliders

Image carousels and sliders are still being used by some websites. They were a popular design trend back in the day when people used to view websites mostly on desktops. However, nowadays, people view websites on their phones. This shift towards mobile devices has meant that image sliders aren’t as attractive as they were before. One main reason is that the slides move too quickly for mobile users to read the content written on them. While on desktops, the viewing area was large, there isn’t enough space on the mobile platform to view the entire contents of a slide at a glance. Thus, web designers nowadays prefer having a video or an engaging image on the homepage rather than sliders.  

Animation

Web designers love animation. It is a great way of garnering the user’s attention. You can wow the audience with it quite easily. However, too much animation can be a distraction. Moreover, it makes it very hard to load the website quickly. Due to these reasons, web designers are now moving away from using too much animation and are instead focusing on engaging content.

Text Overload

In the past, when users mostly used desktops for viewing websites, reading large blocks of text was not a big deal. Even if a website had too much text on it, the users didn’t complain. However, now that people view websites on mobile phones with limited screen space, large paragraphs of text can quickly bore the users. They like content which can be easily scanned in a glance or two. This is why website designers are moving much of the content to the blog instead of keeping it on the website’s landing pages.

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