2014 Predictions for Web Design

Motions: we already have too much of them.<p>For me Wikipedia had the best content and very high ranking, and its &quot;un-designed&quot; interface is telling strongly that making things &quot;designed&quot; was often unnecessary. Sometime ago an &quot;[edit]&quot; link appeared where hovering a section&#x27;s title. It was annoying and has been apparently removed.<p>The first thing I do on a new smartphone install is to remove launcher animations, which are laggy and useless. The same with any PC install, either Linux or Windows: go to the settings and uncheck all animations.<p>Most animations other than simple sliding on mobile apps are also useless. Any the only moving thing that is useful, the &quot;loading...&quot; spinning weel, is often even absent.<p>So I think it will be like with rounded-shades-UI vs flat-UI: once doing animations is easy and mainstream, it will not be a marker of craftmanship, and will be dropped except when really useful.

I just hope that designers stop ruining user controlled standard behavior like scrolling on web pages. Example: <a href="http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;mac-pro&#x2F;</a>

&gt; Things culminated with iOS7’s release which took the concept of flat design mainstream.<p>Yeah, Windows 8 and Android are pretty niche.

If you want to see the future, look to the past...right? With all of the advances in JS&#x2F;CSS features and performance I would expect that a lot of the garish 90&#x27;s Flash &quot;enhancements&quot; will make a return beyond some of the simple scrolling and animation touches we see now.<p>Full 3D spinning cube navigation, automatic audio playback, loading screens, constant page&#x2F;background animations, etc. It&#x27;s all going to come back in some way, and that&#x27;s not some sort of wishful thinking on my part.<p>Having watched and been a part of the evolution of the web during the rise of Macromedia, what we&#x27;re seeing now with CSS and JS is very similar to the simple SWFs people were putting together back then. Once everyone gets comfortable with the way things work, it&#x27;s going to evolve.

Sorry to be negative, but I didn&#x27;t find any real predictions here, just statements about what is happening now, each followed by &quot;...and I think that will continue in 2014.&quot;

I hope for a return of text instead of icons. Text is less ambiguous, does not require guessing, is accessible and clean.

Website colours will begin to standardise a little bit my imagination tells me white backgrounds with black text are in.

it&#x27;s true that &quot;Living and breathing the space gives you the background to draw on using intuition&quot; but, at the same time, that&#x27;s one of the reasons people tend to miss disrupting changes: they are simply so far out what they are used to they don&#x27;t even consider them possible.

am I the only one who doesn&#x27;t like envato?<p>from a web design point of view I believe their popularity is keeping designers from innovating. the whole portfolio is polished but extremely repetitive.