Good UI design trends
I read a good article about UI design trends at readwriteweb.com. To summarize:
- No sign-up forms, no logins
- We Really Care
The article have some good thoughts about web UI trends and I really agree. Just let the user try the service, if he likes it, just sign up. The “We really care” is quite amazing that it took so many years before sites started to understand that they are dealing with people, hmm.
“As I made my selection and moved the cursor to hit the submit button a feeling washed over me that was unlike anything I had ever felt with a webservice online. I felt like they cared. I felt confident that my problem would be solved. I felt like I was contacting PEOPLE who have beating hearts, and families, who had felt worried about their missing contact e-mails too. How very humane of them!”
I would also like to add one trend that was not included in the article. The “Only show me what’s relevant” trend. Many sites have started small, maybe not with a lot of information and functionality. After a while they start to add more and more and the UI gets more and more crowded. Now I think we are starting to see sites that only show the user what he needs at the right moment. For example the Wordpress (the blog platform I’m using) admin area is quite crowded when writing. In the next release (just released) that is coming up they have done really good work of only showing what is needed. Absolutely in the right direction. I believe that contextual navigation and functionality is the future.
Example of the old admin area of Wordpress
See how the new admin area of Wordpress works (flashfile)
What do you think will be the upcoming trends for web UI’s?
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