Forty Media has put together a short-and-sassy list of web design predictions entitled: Web Design in 2005 – catchy!
Some excellent predictions are listed. Others remind me of the forecasts found in fashion industry rags: seemingly arbitrary declarations, pulled out of a hat perhaps?
Out: Retro; Swiss/Euro; Minimal; “that standards-compliant look”
In: Wicked Worn (close to being overdone, but we’ll still see quite a bit of it); Turn of the Century; any look that’s not yet done to death
If minimalism is on the way out, why does the Forty site look the way it does? I suppose they have three weeks to do a revamp.
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The above post links to an earlier story on Cameron Moll's exquisite site. Moll has a point about those ridiculously-long scrolling pages (cough, the Standard, cough).