8. Skeleton screens
'Skeleton screen' – what a nice word. It was pointed out to us. And suddenly they are everywhere: screens consisting of bones without flesh. The flesh is loaded later.
Skeleton screen at LinkedIn
9. Split screen
We have been seeing them for a while now on the famous web design blogs: websites with screens that are laid out in two halves, often with a strong color contrast between left and right. Very suitable for guiding visitor flows. Left for people looking for a job, right for people who have a job to offer. Left buyers, right sellers. Left teachers, right students. Heart and head. Eggs and eggs.
The split screen is also used as a showcase, one of the halves is used for images or even to scroll through cases or products while the other half remains. Sometimes both halves move, very cool but you quickly get sick of it.
One way or another, we're definitely going to do japan phone number list the split screen next year. Because it's so deliciously radical.
10. Vertical video
Video is supposed to be landscape . That is the norm. But because we all film amateurs with our phones these days, no one can ignore portrait videos anymore.
YouTube has supported vertical videos for a while now. In the BBC app, the Videos of the day are all portrait. It's starting to get fun. Portrait offers new possibilities. We're waiting for creative applications of intended vertical videos in web design. You'll have to tilt your desktop screen for that... Or you can go for square video - also very trendy - and your problem is solved.
Vertical video at Videos of the day in the BBC app
It's not bad at all
Let's be honest, it could all be much worse. Open and fluid evolve duotoned and split screened to old & new. We write geometrically and film portrait. 2018 will be another good year for web design.