2017 Digital Design Trends [Infographic]

What are the hottest new design trends emerging this year?

When you take a look backwards at design trends from recent years and compare them with those that are just now emerging, you can get a great feel for the way that user needs grow and change. It is the job of design to meet users where they need it.

Over the past few years, the digital landscape has been filled with Flat Design and responsive, drag-and-drop web templates. The rise of Flat Design was hardly a surprise given that its minimalist appeal is super-easy to replicate and personalize. Flat Design was a simple and adaptable design innovation that really embraced the medium of the screen. In doing so, it created new expectations for the harmony of usability and aesthetics.

But now that we're a few years past the heyday of Flat Design, we're starting to see some of its downfalls. Ever noticed how so many websites and apps look exactly the same? When everyone is using the same tools (WordPress, Bootstrap, etc) and the same variations of Flat Design templates, it can get hard to distinguish one site from the next.

This infographic about the design trends of 2017 shows that this year has some welcome changes to the model of Flat Design in store for us. We can look forward to some dynamic and colorful additions that will ad some much needed depth and energy to those templates we've all grown tired of. Here is a look at some of the emerging and established design trends we can expect to see this year: