Top 5 website designs
For many people a website can make or break a first impression of a company or brand, so its design has to be appealing, informative, and compatible across platforms and browsers to make people want to stay. Check out these top five website design trends:
Top 5 website designs
1. Responsive web design – Starbucks
The layout of a responsive design website provides an optimal viewing experience by automatically adjusting to fit the device it’s viewed on – whether it’s a tablet, smartphone, laptop or desktop computer. When a person changes the size of the browser window, the website’s content will also resize to reflect the changes for a fluid experience, like the Starbucks website below!
Website: Starbucks
2. Flat design – Microsoft
The Microsoft website plays with flat design by using vibrant colours, imagery, and straight lines to showcase products in a minimalistic way. Websites with flat design are simple, clean and modern; many companies are shifting from excessive gradients, drop shadows, and bevels to a less cluttered interface with more white space and bright colours and imagery so people can easily find and enjoy exactly what they came for.
Website: Microsoft
3. Parallax web design – The Royal British Legion
Just like side-scrolling 2D video games (picture Sonic the Hedgehog 4), a parallax website has a background that moves at a different pace than the rest of the page, creating depth and visual storytelling. Brands can impress people with animation and invoke curiosity by guiding visitors through a story as they scroll.
Website: The Royal British Legion
4. Large photo backgrounds – Uber
Large photo backgrounds can offer a pleasant visual experience with the right eye-capturing photo. A captivating picture will draw visitors in quickly.
Website: Uber
5. Single page applications (SPAs) – Gmail
There has been a shift from multi-page navigation-based web layouts to single page applications (SPAs), which offer a seamless experience to users by having all information on one page, often with one browser URL. This format can also help increase server response time, making it easier to load one piece of content (like an email), rather than an entirely new webpage.
Website: Gmail
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