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Trends / 15 Jan 2025

Navigation Trends for 2025: Keeping It Simple and Intuitive

Website navigation design went through a series of phases over the past few years. So, what can we expect to see this year? Which navigation trends will be most popular and effective? Let’s have a look.

Over the years, designers found creative ways to make website navigation look cool and interesting. While most of those trends died off quickly, some of them, like mega-menus, off-canvas menus, and sticky navigation made it to the web design hall of fame and are still being used to this day.

In this post, we explore some of the popular navigation trends of the past few months and see which ones will be most effective this year. Without further ado, let’s dive in.

Trends / 8 Jan 2025

Scalable Design: Creating Graphics That Grow With Your Brand

Branding design is constantly changing these days. We see a new rebranding or logo remake at least every few weeks.

Most of these logo revamps and brand identity shifts are hit-or-miss situations. Some brands even had to roll back to their original designs after backlash from customers and fans.

The best way to avoid having to go through such disasters is to create designs that can grow with your brand. We call this method “scalable design.”

Today, we explore the topic of scalable design discussing why it’s important and how you can use this methodology to create better, future-proof branding designs.

Trends / 25 Dec 2024

Skeuomorphism vs. Flat Design: Where Are We Now?

Skeuomorphism and flat design are two of the most dominant design trends across web and mobile UI design. Or at least that was the case a few years ago.

Today, we only see small glimpses of Skeuomorphism-inspired user interfaces. And the original flat design style is no longer being used by designers. However, some forms of these two design trends are still very much alive and have influenced the modern website and mobile UI designs we use today.

What happened to these two design trends? How do designers use skeuomorphism and flat design styles today? Let’s dive in and find out.

Trends / 24 Dec 2024

Looking Back to Look Forward: Lessons From Design in 2024

Today, we take a glimpse at some of the biggest 2024 design trends to learn from what worked best as well as the failures to plan ahead for the new year.

2024 was big year for every industry in design. With the buzz and fear around AI beginning to settle down, in 2024 we saw many new advancements and improvements in both the web and graphic design worlds.

There is a lot to unpack so let’s dive right into these design reflections.

Graphics / 27 Nov 2024

Texture in Digital Design: Adding Tangible Appeal to the Virtual World

Textures are an incredibly useful tool that can completely transform the look and feel of a design.

With a single layer of texture or a few brush strokes, you can give a vintage look to a modern illustration or instantly add depth to a shallow design.

Even though it often goes unnoticed, textures play a pivotal role in almost all kinds of digital designs. Even some of the most popular logos, websites, and app interfaces use textures to create more interesting and memorable designs.

Today, we take a closer look at the many uses of texture in digital design and how you can use it to transform your projects with a sense of realism and character.

Trends / 12 Nov 2024

20+ New & Modern Color Trends 2025

Color is the main component of every design. Even though it may seem like colors always remain the same, it’s actually something that is ever-changing. And as a result, it makes way for new color trends every year.

If you’re preparing to start a new design project, staying up-to-date on the latest trends is important. It’s the key to making your designs relevant and appealing to the current audiences.

Today we take a look at some breakout color trends that will keep your graphic elements looking fresh. Rather than just talking about different trends, we wanted to go deeper. So we found real-life examples to show how each trend is being used by different industries.

What kind of color trends will be popular this year? Will there be new trends in color schemes? Or would any old trends make a comeback? Here are our predictions.

Trends / 5 Nov 2024

25+ Web Design Trends to Watch in 2025

The average life of a website is three years. And design elements – such as color and typography – often get updated more frequently than that. That’s why it is so important to keep up with web design trends.

Doing this allows you to make small tweaks to your design today so that it won’t be out of date tomorrow.

This guide will help you create an on-point design plan all year long, incorporating some of the best trends for 2025.

Trends / 1 Nov 2024

Gothic Style Design: A Modern Font & Graphic Trend

One recent emerging trend is an increased use of gothic styles and themes. This trend captures everything from imagery and color schemes to fonts and overall styling.

It’s an almost natural progression and evolution from all of the dark mode designs we’ve seen in recent years to reversion to gothic style.

Here, we’ll look at gothic style design and how you can make this design trend – potentially – work for you. Whether that’s in a poster, flyer, typographic choice, or a website. Let’s dive in!

Trends / 31 Oct 2024

30+ Portfolio Design Trends for 2025

When was the last time you updated your design portfolio? (If you’re like me, it’s probably been a while.) Maintaining a fresh portfolio is a good way to show off your skills to potential clients and can be helpful when looking back on work for annual contest entries.

If you’ve fallen behind with your portfolio design, or just need a new portfolio in general, this is a great opportunity to create something using trendy techniques and visuals.

A modern portfolio using design trends can make a great impression. A portfolio is also a representation of your skills — so design wisely! Here’s a look at some of our favorite portfolio design trends.

Trends / 29 Oct 2024

30+ Video Marketing Trends for 2025

Almost every marketing prediction, resource, or how-to guide includes the same advice: video needs to be part of your strategy. But what type of video marketing is most important right now?

From super-short (micro) video clips, to live video on social media, to full-production ads and stories, we’re going to look at some of the top video marketing trends for the year and how you can incorporate them into your design and marketing plans.

And here’s why it matters, U.S. adults spent 149 minutes per day watching digital video in 2021 and that number is only expected to rise.

Let’s dive in, and embrace video as the new marketing channel you need to get right!

Brochure Templates / 28 Oct 2024

Brochure Design Ideas & Inspiration for 2025

Almost every designer has created a brochure at some point. And there’s a strong possibility you’ll be asked to design another! Whether it’s for a client or to promote your own business, there’s an art to designing a brochure.

And then there’s an added challenge: brochure design isn’t just for print anymore. Digital brochures are just as popular as hard-copy versions. It’s quite common for clients to request a printed brochure with a digital shareable file of the same design.

Don’t sweat this design challenge though. We’ve put together some classic and modern tips so you can create a brochure design that looks great, and is easy to read.

Trends / 28 Oct 2024

Icon Design in 2025: The Key Trends

Icons might be one of the most important – and underrated – examples of design in your portfolio. Here’s a look at icon design with some inspiring examples.

Icon elements are shown almost everywhere, but sometimes get produced as an afterthought. That shouldn’t be the case. Great icon design can be distinctive and add finesse and flair to a project.

Let’s take a look at what’s new, and what’s hot in icon design!