Website Design Trends Featuring The Office Quotes

Movement

Movement is a great way to capture attention. It can help keep visitors engaged and provide a different perspective.

Movement can come in many different forms, for example scrolling text or a video.

I feel God in this Chili’s tonight.

🌶

I feel God in this Chili’s tonight. 🌶

Collage Style

With Showit* making waves in the website design community, collage style design became popular. This design trend just means overlapping elements, often breaking the grid rules of website design. Collage style design can be simple with two overlapping elements, or incredibly complex with lots of elements in an organic layout.

One of the biggest hurdles for collage style design is responsive design. I’ve seen many sites that look great on one device, but because things don’t follow standard containers, the design can be glitchy on other devices.

If collage style is something you’re exploring, be sure to try it out on multiple screen sizes and format accordingly.

*Squarespace recently announced Fluid Engine which is a major attempt to compete with Showit. If you haven’t had the chance to try it out, I highly recommend it. It’s incredible.

“Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.”

—Michael Scott

Border Lines

Lines almost feel newspaper inspired to me. This editorial style is IN. It’s a pretty simple way to add an interesting element to your site. There are some things that are outlined in this way on my own site, but the fully committed trend is very unique.

In this example the lines are squared, but often the lines have rounded corners.

Retro-Inspired

I’ve been seeing so many sites that feel very 80’s which makes sense because just like fashion, all trends are cyclical. This trend is huge in graphic design but it extends to websites. Gradients, grain, distorted text and graphics, and more.

Interactive Elements

By adding an interactive element to your site, you have another chance to keep people engaged. It also rewards interacting.

Try it out, hover over the button below. (won’t always work on mobile)

Split Screen

Split screen is a great way to showcase more information without crowding the screen. The visual separator really helps keep things organized.

Conclusion

The great thing about website design is that nothing is permanent. However, when it comes to branding, you want to make sure that you’re not changing your look too much too often. So my advice is to try to balance your branding with trends.

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