'One-colour creates a harmonious, visually cohesive look and it’s easy to make it look like various elements go together. 'Huge typography means visitors will remember what was written and are more likely to come back to your platform,' Herrmann adds. She goes on to add that simple can be harder than complex and it’s one of the biggest challenges across the industry. 'I’m excited by simplicity, one-colour websites and bold typography,' says Tess Herrmann, creative director at MongoDB (opens in new tab). Functional simplicityĮvoulve's website is an example of functional simplicity, with a one-colour theme and pared back elements. 'Design already plays and will continue playing a huge part in developing future-proof strategies that give clients the competitive advantage necessary as they undertake digital transformation.' 05. 'Human-centricity is at the heart of everything,' says Soucaret. By putting design at the heart of every business, he argues that brands can bring connected products and services to life and redesign a user’s relationship with the connected world. Human-centric designįor Benoit Soucaret, creative director at LiveArea (opens in new tab), the most thrilling part of web design is how technology is making the complex simple. They offer new ways to get to know a product or service: you can navigate 3D models, examine their details or follow animated journeys.' 04. 'They run in a lighter way and don’t compromise the user experience. 'What’s exciting is how you can create these interactions in a way that’s natural,' says Bohorquez, who also predicts that this would run alongside browsers that support 3D, animations and illustrations. This trend would include being able to more accurately model the journeys users want to take, then make better suggestions to personalise the experience.

Websites that use AI to offer experiences based on data from customer use patterns are what onebite's (opens in new tab) senior developer, Marcela Bohorquez, is looking forward to. 'The variety and freedom you used to find on GeoCities is what got me into web development and rediscovering that diversity is what’s got me excited for the future.' 03.

'Seeing people create unique places to exercise more creativity in their designs, experiment with new techniques and share their thoughts is super-inspiring,' he says. He puts this down to people starting to appreciate the value of maintaining their own space online. With web design becoming more accessible, Redweb's (opens in new tab) lead front-end developer Matt Northam is excited about the resurgence of personal sites. This is the next big thing.Dwayne's Garden Art was one of the millions of personal pages created (Image credit: One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age blog) And I’m like, what’s bigger than GDP six, seven times, all the financial assets in the world? And I’m like, oh! This is a big deal. “I didn’t get it myself, until at my own conference a guy defined crypto as the digitization of all financial assets and money. Amazon led that bubble and crashed 95%… before it went to 3,500 in the next boom,” he said.įurthermore, Dent shared how he got into crypto after initially failing to understand the concept. “I compare the cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin just like the Amazon of it, the new dot-com retailers that were the rave only the last part of the 90s bubble, and were the epitome of it. Economist and founder of HS Dent Publishing, Harry Dent, has maintained that crypto is the ‘next big thing’ but the market’s growth will mirror the dot-com bubble that saw stocks like Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) crash before rallying to record highs, he said during a ‘ Rich Dad Radio Show‘ appearance on August 24.Īccording to Dent, the Bitcoin ( BTC) crash might be interpreted as the end of the crypto market, but the economist stressed that would not be the case.

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