2014 Website Trends
Adaptivity Pro offers a glimpse into popular website trends for this upcoming year. It’s important that companies review their website designs annually, helping ensure websites reflect the latest industry trends, which appeal to customers. The top trends expected to dominate 2014 are as follows:
Single Page Designs – For companies that sell a few select products, single page websites are more user-friendly and accommodating to customers. This helps convey a controlled message to customers, providing them with detailed information at a glance, without the hassles of entering complicated navigation menus.
Scrolling – With mobile devices rapidly gaining in popularity, smaller screens mean that customers have to scroll further down websites. To help streamline this process and not frustrate potential customers, it’s best that companies embrace simple, clutter-free mobile website designs.
User-Interface – This design approach focuses on incorporating a flat user-interface with fewer design elements and images. This helps boost loading speeds on mobile devices.
Header Bar – Having a fixed header bar helps customers easily navigate back to the home, catalog or contact pages.
Type – With more Baby Boomers signing up for Smartphone devices to stay in touch with friends and family, larger headings and fonts are rapidly gaining popularity.
Complicated Plug-Ins – Instead of the slow-loading traditional plug-ins of yesteryear, more companies are embracing fast-loading alternatives, such as CSS 3, Javascript and HTML 5. These help create a unique user interface, without the hassle of cumbersome download speeds.
Backgrounds – Larger backgrounds were once popular, but required a tedious amount of upload time. With today’s high-speed options, large backgrounds are making a comeback.
Mobile Site – With the use of desktop computers dwindling, it’s important for companies to stay up-to-date on the latest technologies. More consumers are using mobile devices for online shopping, which means that retailers need to implement easy-to-load mobile website designs.
High Resolution – With high-resolution technology becoming mainstream, websites have the potential to knock customers’ socks off. While customers are gradually switching over to high-resolution devices, this isn’t a critical component for companies to immediately implement, but definitely one to keep in mind.
Third Party Programs – Companies should consider adding a variety of third-party services, allowing customers to easily update their Facebook or Twitter statuses, post items to Instagram, Flickr or YouTube.
Adaptivity Pro offers “ahead of the curve” Utah web design. They focus on helping companies generate revenues, ultimately helping turn customers into long-term clients. Their SLC web design incorporates a variety of techniques, which captivated readers and help guarantee longer site visits.