{"id":21138,"date":"2019-06-25T11:30:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T11:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/?p=21138"},"modified":"2019-06-25T11:30:39","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T11:30:39","slug":"decoration-vs-minimalism-where-is-web-design-fashion-going-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/decoration-vs-minimalism-where-is-web-design-fashion-going-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Decoration vs minimalism: where is web design fashion going next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Web design is all about pleasing two masters: the human beings looking at the website, but also the software web-crawlers that spin the World Wide Web, and make it possible for those humans to see your site. Web Design is also an ongoing tussle between the ambitions of the Designers and the limitations of the end-user\u2019s computers.<\/p>\n<h2>The early days of web design<\/h2>\n<p>The history of Web Design so far has been very reactive &#8211; a matter of finding the simplest work-arounds for limitations in the software and hardware.<\/p>\n<p>If you checked out the film, Captain Marvel, you may have noticed that its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marvel.com\/captainmarvel\/\">promotional website<\/a> resurrected the corpse of mid-90s Geocities &#8211; and reminded us all of the cluttered amateur aesthetic that introduced an entire generation to the web.<\/p>\n<p>Back then, if something was on a computer &#8211; it had to look and sound like it was on a computer. Every inch of screen space had to be filled with something flashing or sparkling or changing colour. Even the cursors were animated. Like the code behind it, the internet was cluttered and clumsy!\u00a0 The medium was inextricably linked to the message.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re long enough of tooth to remember Netscape, you may remember those \u201cThis website does not work on this browser\u201d notifications. It\u2019s fair to say that, historically, some of the solutions have lacked elegance &#8211; but they were the best we could do with the tools we had.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately &#8211; we\u2019re always inventing new tools.<\/p>\n<h2>The age of white space<\/h2>\n<p>Mozilla\u2019s Head Designer, Jen Simmons gave <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/20QKda7IhJQ\">a great presentation in 2018 &#8211; which you can watch on YouTube<\/a> &#8211; in which she breaks down the history of Web Design into several distinct eras &#8211; most of which overlap each other.<\/p>\n<p>The present epoch in Web Design is, of course \u2018Responsive\u2019 &#8211; where dealing with the different size demands of smaller, portable gadgets has produced images which resize as well as text which wraps around and flows. This is by-far the most intuitive solution we\u2019ve developed.<\/p>\n<p>And it has allowed, for the first time, for the design aesthetics from the real world to make their way in to the Web Designers lexicon. A website no longer has to look like a website &#8211; it can look like a magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Which means it can employ tasteful uses of white space.<\/p>\n<p>The careful use of nothing has always been important in traditional Graphic Design and Typography. The inclusion and aesthetic use of white space &#8211; of areas where there are no images and no text &#8211; has long been a signifier of elegance and affluence. On paper, space is a premium, so wasting it is a statement of decadent luxury.<\/p>\n<p>In Web Design, active white space (that\u2019s white space which is deliberately employed as a design choice, rather than the passive white space of margins, gutters, etc) helps keep the pages clean of clutter.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also a sensible solution to the problem of different screen configurations. A column of text down the centre of the screen, with nothing significant either side, is a format that works with little adaptation on a landscape computer monitor, and a portrait phone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Space is not in short supply on the net &#8211; but attention is.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>The age of ecommerce<\/h2>\n<p>Web Designers need to communicate the most information possible, in the least time possible. This has led to sites which are aesthetically pleasing\u2026 but familiar.<\/p>\n<p>Web Designer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.novolume.co.uk\/\">Dave Ellis<\/a> identified this trend with his ironic \u2018We\u2019re Unique\u2019 template.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21139\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21139\" class=\"wp-image-21139 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/unique-template-e1559829158654.jpg\" alt=\"An image showing a web design template that is commonly used by businesses\" width=\"650\" height=\"749\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-21139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Dave Ellis<\/p><\/div>\n<p>His point was that a preponderance of the themes available for Website Designers follow this basic form. It\u2019s what users have been trained to expect. It\u2019s what clients recognise as a safe option for their business website.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s because, in a wide world where the internet is now the engine driving the economy &#8211; and users take less than 15 seconds to decide whether or not they\u2019re staying on a website &#8211; utility has trumped pure aesthetics.<\/p>\n<p>But it works. It ain\u2019t broke, so why bother to fix it?<\/p>\n<p>Well, if there\u2019s anything that the last 25 years of Web Design has taught us, it\u2019s that it is a restless endeavour. New tools are being developed all the time, new toys are being made for Designers to play with.<\/p>\n<p>The development of smartphones and then tablets led to the age of Responsive design. How will Web Design respond to the opportunities offered by foldable phones?\u00a0 What about those Tony Stark phones that everyone wants &#8211; the transparent ones?\u00a0 They\u2019re only a few years away! What about VR and Augmented Reality?\u00a0 Googleglass failed, because it was too soon. Give it another five years, and maybe \u2026<\/p>\n<h2>The age of science fiction<\/h2>\n<p>So, the Internet is a constant work in progress and those brave souls chipping away at the inter(coal)face, already have tools that are changing the look of the internet, in small ways, day by day.<\/p>\n<p>Flexbox, CSS Grid, Multicolumn, Flow, and Variable Fonts are all making subtle but significant changes right now &#8211; such as intuitive side-bar navigation and 100% page-width.<\/p>\n<p>Wander over to a site like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.awwwards.com\">awwwards.com<\/a> and you\u2019ll see a cavalcade of futuristic web designs, using these tools in new and revolutionary ways, to create startling, extravagant, full-screen visions.<\/p>\n<p>But one has to wonder about the practicality of some of these designs. Most of the active websites you\u2019ll find here are business-to-business sites operated by Designers and Design Agencies, and used as portfolios to show off their design skills.<\/p>\n<p>Are these experimental (some could say \u2018gimmicky\u2019) interfaces designed by Web Designers <u>for<\/u> Web Designers? Will these designs ever cross over into the world of hard-nosed commerce and 15-second attention spans?<\/p>\n<h2>The age of digital storytelling<\/h2>\n<p>Digital storytelling could be the way forward.<\/p>\n<p>Websites have been typically journalistic in form. The demands of SEO and of \u2018click bait\u2019 have entrenched this &#8211; with the key information being packed into the text and, even more specifically, into the opening paragraph and the title &#8211; so that the Search Engines can reward your journalistic nous with clicks.<\/p>\n<p>Sites that tell stories can get away from this. Emergence Magazine, for example, has pushed journalism in the direction of multimedia, employing a montage of audio and video clips, with floating text, to create stories which use the existing tools of Web Design to create intuitive, visually engaging and dramatic journalism. Look at their report on <a href=\"https:\/\/emergencemagazine.org\/story\/earthrise\/#1\">NASA\u2019s first flight to The Moon<\/a>, for example.<\/p>\n<p>This is a cutting-edge example of how a scrolling one-page design can use the limitations of the viewport &#8211; the web browser &#8211; to deliver information in a narrativistic way. Information can be revealed by scrolling, which means that a sense of narrative form &#8211; a beginning, middle and end structure &#8211; can take hold.<\/p>\n<p>Sites that have been composited &#8211; like video games or movies &#8211; employ sophisticated animations in order to tell stories. These stories can be interactive &#8211; involving gamified choices and branching &#8211; but the beauty of these sites is that they are getting away from the columns and boxes look that websites have had since \u2026 Well, since forever.<\/p>\n<p>Look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oatthegoat.co.nz\/\">Oat the Goat<\/a>. Seriously, do; it\u2019ll blow you away. Produced by New Zealand\u2019s Ministry of Education, it\u2019s an interactive animation for children learning to read. It has options for readalong, or you can just watch as the text is read to you, and there are points where the story stops, while the child deals with a moral dilemma. The UI is an absolute delight, but the real joy of sites like this, is they don\u2019t look or feel like websites. There\u2019s some mad Java skills on show here!<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there\u2019s very little text on the homepage (at least on show to the human user), so the Search Engine spiders will need to hunt for different prey.<\/p>\n<p>We are all subject to the tyranny of the Search Engine algorithms. Until such time as they start valuing metrics other than the words on the web-page, good, challenging and experimental web design will remain a competitive sport between web designers, for the purpose of impressing other web designers.<\/p>\n<p>But new platforms, and the new uses people find for their gadgets, will demand that the Search Engines respond. We can\u2019t wait for them to lead the way, Web Designers have to head out into the wild frontier of new design concepts, so the Search Engine spiders can follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web design is all about pleasing two masters: the human beings looking at the website, but also the software web-crawlers that spin the World Wide Web, and make it possible&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-web-design"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Decoration vs minimalism: where is web design fashion going next? - Heart Internet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Web design fashions change regularly. 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