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Whats your favorite web design trend of the past?
over 3 years ago from Scott Thomas, UX/UI Designer
Okay, I'm old and I enjoy looking back at the old days. I tossed some of mine.. the dates might not be correct.
Early 2000's
- Not to brag, but my site works on Netscape 2 and Internet Explore 3. I show it at the bottom of all my sites.
- You know what this site needs? Some digital music auto playing and some gif animation I stole from sites I found on webcrawler.
- Boom, Just added some social interaction to my site... aka adding a guestbook or a vBulletin forum.
- Psh, I just went viral, I have 1,000 hits on my hit counter... hold up refreshrefreshrefresh oh wait 1,003.
- OMG PLEASE BOOKMARK ME!!!!
- Did you know I was popular? Cant you tell with all the affiliate badges on my site
- I'm currently live "tweeting" with my 2 users because I just added an online chat feeds to my landing page
- table tr td /td /tr /table
- Sublime? Psh I code in the MS text editor
- Macromedia is the bomb
Mid 2000's
- Its all about the Div, Div, Div
- Drooling over 2advanced flash sites... why are you sooo pretty
- Getting my inspirational zen on with CSS Zen Garden
- Reading and buying books on design trends and how to get started with Flash (I'm coming after you 2advanced)
- Name dropping your host in the footer... oh yah 2advanced hosting
- Using javascript to modify our fonts before webfonts were a thing
- Colorizing that ugly gray browser scroll bar on the side
- Skeuomorphism or GTFO
Early 2010's
- I got 99 problems, but my mobile redirect ain't
- Getting my grunge on by adding textures and splashes to everything!
- Paralax! I don't know what it is but we need to do it!
- Lightboxes and slideshows for all!
- Wait you don't using css sprites?!?!
- ICONFONTS!
- OMG PLEASE
BOOKMARKFB LIKE ME - Wait why are you using mobile redirects? Its about responsive!
- Screw skeuomorphism, its about flat design
The Past 3-4 Years
- JS & CSS Animations for everything! Its like powerpoint all over again!
- Videos in the background?!?! Heck yah screw loading time!
- Wait... your not using long shadows?!?!
- Oh you don't want to save 10% and give me your email, sure fine.. just close this lightbox and pretend everything is cool again.
- Gradients are cool again! My inner Geocities kid is happy!
- Style guides! Design Systems!
- Full bleed hero image with text on top... boom my work here is done
- oh wait, you aren't using SVGs animations?!?!
- Flexbox! I can finally center things! Sorry Margin-top
- Why aren't you using [Insert Sketch, Flint, Invision, Craft ]
- Wait your are using long shadows? Thats so like 3 years ago, its about light shadows now.
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