Web design trends

Just a list of articles I have read and some of the reference sites, collected here to inspire, guide, illustrate us in our work.

1. The Next Web
   • Longer scrolling sites
   • Story telling  and with animation 
   • Absence of large header background images
   • Simplicity
   • Fixed width centred site layout
   • High quality custom photography
   • Flyout/slideout app-like menus
   • Hidden main menus
   • Large typography
2. 99 designs
   • Make it big, in a book cover form and with full screen images
   • Parallax effect mutations, showing innovative scrolling and the illusion of a 3-d space
   • Flat designs, folded in to orimami designs
   • No more boxes, rather circles (use global menu to navigate to his instagram), skewed horizons (and axonometric projection), desktop inside a monitor (based on Trompe-l’œil technique), and treating scrolling as flying in an infinite space.
   • Navigation widgets, including a scroll-progress bar, expanding relevant items sub-menu, sticky menu in corners, 
   • Mash-up interface
   • Simplicity or minimalist, focused on a single goal/conversion.
3. Creative Bloq
   
   • Card-based, for reuse/responsive
4. Web Designer Wall
   • Ghost buttons, paired with large background images.
   • Scrolling in and clicking out