With the end of every year starts a universal movement to put down what’s left behind and what’s new to enter. Not that the last months of the year are when the trends start or end, but that’s when intellectual beings would set out on retrospection and prospection, if not every day. For 2010, I won’t say there have been dramatic shifts in web designing, but it’s definitely a year that marked different trends to expand upon and make better in the coming time. Check out how much you’ve dabbled into these trends or how you plan to incorporate them into your designs to be a part of the movement as I list them out:

• Oversized logos/headers: Huge headers and logos are making an unforgettable impression on the visitors. Combining towards the trend of large logos and headers are the slab typefaces, which are used to create brave, remarkably noticeable expressions.
   
• Sketch and hand-drawn style of designing: Corporate designs can be seen incorporating sketches and hand-drawn design.
   
• Typography: It remained a fresh trend during this year. Designers weren’t afraid to explore fonts for different styles, sizes, twisting, and molding if it was fit for the purpose.
   
• Single-page layouts: It’s more about personal profiles, not much in line with the corporate web design.
   
• Huge images/pictures: Conveying the site’s tone emphatically, large images become the big statements inviting the visitors in.
   
• Interactive/intuitive designs: Elements of Flash were redeemed to bring a slightly more intuitiveness and interactivity on the sites.
   
• Modal boxes: Modal boxes have been much popular as a usability solution in 2010 designs.
   
• White space: Minimalism is the trend. Many websites showcase bold typology and innovative color schemes featuring a lot of white space.
   
• Icons and visuals: Away from clip art, it’s about stylistic rendering of icons representing a small image to give an idea what the entire section is all about. These are quick to be noticed and recognized.
   
• Oversized footers: These were exaggerated and looked more an integral part of the design than an after-thought.
   
• Introduction blocks: Creativity for the intro boxes pushed its boundaries. The conventional left-flanked intro box could be found unusually placed and in many types of design, including corporate design, web applications, and portfolios. It’s good to see new ways of intro presentations.
   
• Magazine layouts: These are getting much used for infotainment sites, such as those of blogs.

Overall, we can’t deny it has been a year of change of perspective and even retro has been seen expanded. So, what’s there to stay and what will disappear? Do we know what would we seek tutorials for by the end of the next year? Well, no!