Navneet Panchariya - Web Designer | UI Designer | Front End Developer

If you're anything like me, you spend a lot of time studying other designers' work. I like to look at projects for the experience and the interactions created for the users. Obviously, as more techniques come about, the changes in web design take place and newer, better things arrive. We've experienced the life of the splash page, the introduction header, parallax scrolling and so many other things that have affected the web experience. However, those things were mainly aesthetic and didn't really change the way we create websites. Lately, I've been thumbing through some websites and have seen a new change. One I think I like, but am not sure. A change that I could see really reinventing the way we even think about designing websites. It would cause us to be smarter and think more intuitively about our audience. And that couldn't be a bad thing. This technique is something that's not unique to the world of responsive and mobile design. However, f...

It's the time of year when every blogger on the Web pulls out a crystal ball, dusts off the tarot cards and spends hours staring pointedly into tea cups in an effort to predict the trends for the coming year. The resulting lists usually range in plausibility from the absolutely certain (Apple will release a new device) to the utterly implausible (it will be a TV). The truth is that it is extremely rare for any trend to arrive out of the blue. If you look carefully you'll see the roots of every major trend in the coming year start to develop in 2013 (or earlier). Whilst it's possible that a genuinely revolutionary concept will be popularized, it's far more likely that 2014 will be a year of small incremental gains, inspired by, or in response to, steady technological development. The future of web design is already evident, we just need to look behind us to see it. Here are 7 predictions for 2014 that are already proving true, and how you can survive them...