Showing posts with label Website Design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Website Design. Show all posts

Tuesday, 24 May 2016

Make your Website vibrant with Duotone Images

          Besides the web designing trends we explained in our earlier post, there are some other trends which are also ruling the web designing world this year. Dotone is one of the 2016 web designing trends. Images created with Duotone color palettes are already existed for many years, it has get greater attention with the help of spotify which makes Duotone come back.

          Duotone Images are images that actually use two colors mitigated with middle tones and highlights. Initially, Duotone images are used in print media with the view of saving expenditures for printing.
           Many Web Designing Companies are using Duotone images to provide great feeling, gaining emotions and sometimes thrilling the viewers with the web page. With matching different tones of colors and oversaturated hues that makes the image fluorescent and exhausting.
          The simple steps to create duotone images with Photoshop are as follows:
Step 1: Open the image.
Step 2: Go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Gradient Map
Step 3: Choose two colors - one dark and color and one light color. Use the dark         color for the dark parts of the image and light color for the light parts.

          Click here to see the video explanation of making duotone images and adjusting levels for the image.
          Here are some popular brands and organizations providing outstanding color schemes with duotone images in their web pages.

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Saturday, 20 February 2016

Web Designing Trends that you want in 2016

          The elevation in current technologies and tools for accessing and build websites make a certain change in the process of web designing every year. Besides latest technologies, the advanced technologies in Graphic design also made a great impact and change in designing websites.
          What are the latest Web Designing trends and which of the new trends will rock the Web Designing world to support your web designing tasks this year.Come on. Take a look.


1. Flat Design with Hamburger menu
          The trend of minimalism began in 2015 and it will rock in 2016. Hiding the elements in a hamburger menu empower you to do minimalism. Be clear and consistent in selecting the elements to encapsulate in hamburger menu. If you are designing E-commerce Websites, be careful to provide hamburger menu as it may penetrate the audience to view some services and make them feel complicated with the menu.

           The another approach incorporated with hamburger menu which ensures the charismatic appearance of the web design Flat Design. Flat Design 2.0 which is the latest version. The design offers minimal textures and other small gradients.
          Providing designs like grid, bright vibrant colors, valuable images with stunning imagination will add value to the design and acquire great customer engagement.

2. Vertical Patterns
          The concept of implementing vertical patterns in the web designs provides great visual experience to the users. Many Top Industries are keen in redesigning their websites with vertical patterns and scrolling. Hence this approach will take the websites to greater extents in the further years.
          Creating a visual pattern is quite tough but it will support your web designing task in a great manner. The visual patterns can provide great visually relaxed experience for users and eliminates the visual barriers which help to feel the content more readable.

3. Add Sliders
          The sliders in the home page of websites help the web designers to get a Wow effect from users. The full screen sliders attract internet audience and users which will get greater engagement with the website. Each time the user clicks, the sliders refresh the screen and make them view the new visual elements. Hence the sliders add value to the visual elements to your website as they can hide the huge visual sources and reveal them in an attractive manner based on the user clicks.

4. Iconography
        The web designing trend which provides a great solution for the issues caused by using .jpg or .png files and others. The standard image formats do not perform well on the modern web. If you use them for user actions, it will affect the aesthetics of your website because it may take much time to load.
         We want to provide some user actions with images. But it may affect the site’s performance. Then what we do?
         Iconography is the perfect choice for this problem. Web pages designed with icon fonts and Scalable Vector Graphics is widely used in the internet world nowadays. As it offers better user actions, it is liked by many people and will reach greater number of users in 2016.


5. Cinemagraphs
         The victory of liove photos in latest smartphones made a great impact in Web Designing also. The trend of Cinemagraphs is the victim of this. The live images with a part of animated portion will scratch the user attention and make great engagement with the website. Web Designing Experts predicts that we can see many websites designed with cinemagraphs this year.
         We have mentioned some of the 2016 web designing trends here. Besides these, Less grid Layouts, Typography, using High Quality background images and others which are in existence for the past years also in limelight in the Web Designing World this year.