13 Tech Design Trends For 2013

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Please don't say Metro. Please don't say Metro. Damn...it's #1. :(

What better way to start the year than to make predictions – some obvious, some not so obvious – as to what trends will become more widely used in the design community. Each year seems to bring new ideas to the community and once they gain enough traction, they eventually become the norm (we’re looking at you, “pull to refresh”).
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Time to party like it's 1995 and the concepts of 3D and rounded corners are the works of dreams and science fiction!
 
a 700px wide website leaves too much white space when viewing it on a “Retina” screen or a 27″ iMac.
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I like how they only reference Apple products, as if there are no other products with displays wider than 700 pixels.
 
I just don't get it. Metro seems to be a step back to the days of DOS... Okay so you can have other apps running and there is an actual GUI, but now we're back to applications being full screen, or two sharing the screen with two levels of overlay.

Why not just strip out the UI and go back to the fucking command prompt? Tomorrow looks like yesterday to me!
 
AOL 1996, Metro 2012.

And christ what a list. Maybe for hipstertypes it could sound believable.
 
MrLonghair said:
And christ what a list. Maybe for hipstertypes it could sound believable.
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Agreed.

Am I not the only one who picked up on the irony of his pointing out trends that he doesn't follow with his own website? Make it wider than 700px, flat design, use larger fonts...
 
Apparently no one noticed then"article" was written by some teenager. Scroll to the bottom.

And because those ramblings are posted to a website that makes them solid gold, amirite?

Where do you find this garbage, Steve? :)
 
I have noticed the trend in wider webpages, and I find it a nuisance, not an improvement.

To me, the perfect width of a webpage design is ~900px, maybe slightly less.

Essentially I want enough space for two webpages to fit in separate windows side by side on a 1920 wide screen, and still have enough space for scroll bars and window decorations.

Once you start getting much wider than this, it becomes annoying to use.

At home I have a 2560x1600 display, so it isn't really an issue either way, but at work I'm still on a 1920x1080 (wish it were 1920x1200 instead, but I digress), and its annoying to constantly have to try to orient the bottom scroll bar so the text you are reading is wthin the window...
 
Wish I had just read comments instead of the article. Would of wasted far less time.
 
UrielDagda said:
I just don't get it. Metro seems to be a step back to the days of DOS... Okay so you can have other apps running and there is an actual GUI, but now we're back to applications being full screen, or two sharing the screen with two levels of overlay.

Why not just strip out the UI and go back to the fucking command prompt? Tomorrow looks like yesterday to me!
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i disagree with this, i think metro is a step in the right direction. it isnt perfect, but i think its a start and in a few years when we have screens that are flexible, and transparent we will be doing things like we see in Minority report, Avatar, and the Matrix movies. im excited to see it progress
 
additionally i like the live tiles, hell im sorta mad i didnt get a windows phone. at the time win phone 8 wasnt out so i got an android but i like the widgets and i see the live tiles to be a similar or better implementation of that.
 
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