As long as the web has been around there have been certain design trends which have popped up from time to time. Some of these trends have stuck around and, over time, some have disappeared. Think back to the time of Geocities, to the time of ‘Web 2.0’ designs and closer to home, with the “flat design” trend that’s popular now. Now, in 2013, the web industry is changing as rapidly as ever. New techniques, or ways of working, pop up every month, if not every week. A trend can be described as: a general direction in which something is developing or changing. This is completely true for trends in web design, for it’s often a particular design movement or idea that takes place, gathers some traction and then many other websites either adopt that design or steer clear of it. Either way, trends help us to observe a general direction that the design world might be heading in the months or years to come.
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