UI/UX Design Trends In 2019 That Users Like

Technology evolves rapidly, and digital products become more complex. Design trends become an impression of this evolution. The designer needs to be updated with the latest design trends. The design style should change and evolve to keep work fresh and resonate with clients and products. The 2019 came with a lot of trends from the last year and also add some new ones. So let us see the new trends during the current year.

Trends in UI design-

1. Unique Illustrations-

Illustrations are one of the most powerful tools in designer’s toolbox. They are one of the most strongest visual resources that users will remember and connect with products. Well-created illustrations allow designers to convey complex thoughts without using a lot of words- when users see illustration they can understood the concept. 

Custom illustrations with bold, vibrant colors are in 2019 and become the main trend of the year. This type of content can convert 7 times better than any other type of visual content. Today organizations take advantage of  custom illustrations. With the use of custom illustrations, the organization demonstrates the uniqueness of the values of their brand. This approach in design helps organizations get closer to their customers by making their experience with a brand increasingly customized. This custom illustrations are expensive but using this, you’ll get a lot of benefits. The most well known directions are illustrations with simple shapes and isometric forms.

2. Liquid Graphics-

Design turns out to be more digitized, and designers and artists following these trends bring complex forms of color to this world. Furthermore, liquid, holographic, chromatic forms, and glitters are all over, including the UI design. It concerns illustrations as well as typography.

3. Large typography, Creative and bold –

The reason of- why many websites and mobile apps use oversized headlines is here. By putting more visual weight on an important message you increase chances of users to read it. To do so, you need to add more room for messaging(means, use more negative space around the headlines). In most of the cases, typography is replacing background images and presents the main element of the page. This trend is known as Outline typography. These trends are mixed together and also combined with bold and large bodies.

4. Dark themes-

Dark Theme

The dark themes began to prevail after the Mojave update was released. Dark themes attracts users and world- known organizations have released software updates with dark themes.

5. Custom 3d graphic: animated and static-

3D design is more popular trend. Presently it’s a static design as well as an animated 3d graphics. Various simulations of natural materials, the movement of objects and also great combinations of objects in compositions increases users’ interest.

6. Bright, bold colors and gradients-

Gradients used in a year ago’s designs will in general be somewhat outdated and those are going to fade away. But gradients didn’t disappear. The new, better gradients are coming. They will be using rich, solid colors.

7. Minimalism-

As opposed to the resurgent color schemes famous in 2018, the minimalist design is coming. The severity of the interfaces is selected by the product companies, emphasizing the static nature, elitism and the high quality of their services and products. Minimalism is achieved by using a monochrome color palette and also bold font turns.

Trends in UX design

1. Voice in interfaces-

How frequently did you hear “OK, Google?” recently. Google, Alexa, and Siri are our everyday helpers. Practically 50% of all searches are being made using the voice because there are numerous advantages, for example, no need to use your hands.

2. Micro-interactions-

Micro-interactions provide a highly natural view of the interface. People use micro-interactions in all software products. With fluid, animation makes, the interface looks more dynamic and lighter and it also makes ordinary interactions more entertaining.

3. Gesture-control-

With the output of buttonless phones, where the whole surface of the phone’s front panel occupies the screen, gesture control has become a vital way to deal with navigation. Now everybody needs to reduce the number of controls and increase the intuitive gesture control.

4. Thumb- friendly experience-

A years ago, the smart phones that were released by top mobile companies get large enough screens (5’7-‘6’2). This thing makes our fingers and hands practice at stretching. Thumb-oriented design transports all important and frequently used controls to the bottom of the screen. You can reach fundamental parts of your application with the use of only your thumb, without the help of your other hand. But, honestly, the moving of this trend began quite a while prior with the development of bottom navigation menus.

Final Words-

Eye catchy UI is important for user’s engagement. Using new trends in UI/UX plays a vital role in benefit. These are some important UI/UX trends we have noticed. There can be few others. If you are looking to develop a best UI/UX, Solace team is here to help you. Develop an attractive UI/UX with Solace, which gives you more user engagement that you are looking to. You can consult with Solace experts for developing attractive UI/UX .

11 Cool things that you can do with SVG

https://solaceinfotech.com/blog/svg-things-you-can-do-with/

What is SVG?

SVG is a graphic format that most closely responds to current web development demands of scalability, interactivity, responsiveness,  programmability, performance, and also accessibility.

SVG is a graphic format and is based on XML. It is used to display a variety of graphics on the web. SVG documents are simple plain text files which describes line, curves, shapes, color and text also. It is human readable, easily understood and modified so can be altered with CSS or JavaScript. As a result, it gives flexibility and versatility which can never be matched by traditional PNG, GIF or JPGs. SVG is a W3C standard, that means it can inter-operate easily with other open standard languages and technologies such as JavaScript, DOM, CSS and HTML. Upto the time W3C sets the global industry standards, it appears to be likely SVG will continue to be the de-facto standard for vector graphics in the browser.

Use cases of SVG-

1. Logos and Icons-

Logos and icons mostly share the same need to be clear and sharp at any size. This makes SVG an ideal. SVG icons are more accessible and also much easier to position.

Using the <img> tag-

This is a basic solution to create SVG using <img>tag. It requires only the simple <img> tag that you have used with most of the JPDs, GIFs and PNGs.

This is an easy way to use SVG files. You can control image size as per your requirement using width and/or height attributes, but you can’t control color. This technique is fully compatible with all modern browsers except IE8 (and older IEs) and also early model Android phones. In some cases both width and height are required for a correct display.

2. Logos and Icons using IE8 fallbacks-

There are multiple ways to provide legacy browser compatibility, if you require it. In each case, you’ll need to provide PNG files to replace your SVGs.

Prefer a gracefully degrading technique that requires that all files use the same names and share the same path. It also requires Modernizr.

A few lines of javascript will do the trick:

if(!Modernizr.svg) {

var imgs = document.getElementsByTagName(‘img’);

for(var i = 0; i < imgs.length; i++) {

var  this_src = imgs[i].src;

if(this_src.match(/(\.svg)$/)) {

imgs[i].src = this_src.replace(/(\.svg)$/, ‘.png’);

}

}

}

You can also load an SVG image using the object or iframe tags. Each provides a markup-only way to load fallback images:

<object data=”svg_image.svg” type=”image/svg+xml”>

<!– the following image is displayed if browser can’t load svg image –>

<img src=”fallback.png” alt=”fallback image”>

</object>

2. Animations- 

You can create engaging animations, even special kinds of animation and also including SVG line drawings. SVG can interact with CSS animation, as well as its own built-in SMIL animation ability.

When you use inline SVG, all that SVG code is written in the HTML, and thus in the DOM. You can style them just like you would a <div>, <h1>, or any other HTML element. CSS styling brings the possibility of animations and transitions. 

3. Get two colors use-

We know that a limitation of using <use> to insert a bit of SVG is that you can’t write compound CSS selectors that affect through there. 

For instance:

SVG-

<svg class=”parent”>

  <!– shadow DOM boundary is effectively here –>

  <use class=”child”>

     <!– stuff <use> references gets cloned in here –> 

  </use>

  <!– end shadow DOM boundary –>

</svg>

That shadow DOM boundary prevents selectors like-

/* nope */

.parent .child {

}

Maybe someday we’ll get a working CSS selector to penetrate that shadow DOM boundary, but as of this writing it’s not here yet.

You set the fill on the <svg> parent and that will cascade down through, but that only gets you one color (remember to not set the presentational fill attribute on those shapes! ).

Set the fill CSS property on any shapes you like to currentColor:

CSS-

.shape-1, .shape-2 {

  fill: currentColor;

}

That way when you set the color property on the parent <svg>, that will also cascade through. It won’t do anything all by itself (unless you have <text> in there), but current Color is based off of color so you can use it for other things.

svg.variation-1 {

  fill: red;

  color: orange;

}

svg.variation-2 {

  fill: green;

  color: lightblue;

}

4. Styling Inline SVG-

Inline SVG can be “styled” in the sense that it already has fills and strokes and whatnot the second you put it on the page. That’s nice and a totally clear way to use inline SVG. But you can also style inline SVG through CSS, which is a kind of awesome because, CSS is where we feel powerful and comfortable. It works pretty much how you would expect.

5. Animating SVG with JavaScript-

Advantage to go with JavaScript for SVG animations is support also. There are plenty of quirks to be concerned about while animating SVG. Some browsers don’t support transforms on elements. While some browsers do unexpected things with page zooming. Some are inconsistent with transform-origin. JavaScript libraries always help with these problems. While we’re talking about animation specifically, many JavaScript SVG libraries are about working with SVG in general. They can create and control it and also access properties from the element and change them, etc. Kinda like adding a more robust API to SVG.

6. SVG Text-

There is one <text> element in SVG. This is casual here: it is for putting a text into the SVG. Not only just outlines of shapes of letters (although you can do that too) but also actual normal web text. That text can be selectable, SEO-friendly, accessible, normal web text. The fonts you have access to are the same as the remaining of the document. So if you load an @font-face font, you’ll be able to use that in the SVG.

7. Can put raster images in SVG-

There probably isn’t a tremendously huge use-case for this, other than the obvious: you need a raster graphic among other things in a larger SVG design. Similarly it moves and scales with the rest of the elements. The syntax is:

<svg … >

  <image xlink:href=”/path/to/image.jpg” width=”100%” height=”100%” x=”0″ y=”0″ />

</svg>

You’d most likely never drop a raster realistic in a SVG all by itself as there isn’t any advantages to it. Yes, you can apply SVG filters to the image then, but you can apply SVG filters to an <img> as well. Same goes for clipping paths and masks also.

8. SVG Filters on SVG and HTML Elements-

You can apply filters to any element from CSS. But there is also filters you can define within SVG. You can apply it to an element right in the SVG like:

SVG-

<svg>

  <!– could be anything –>

  <image filter=”url(#pictureFilter)” xlink:href=”image.jpg” width=”100%” height=”100%” x=”0″ y=”0″ />

</svg>

There are a lot SVG filters. Familiar ones like blur, and weird ones that apply painterly effects.

9. Optimizing SVG tools-

Here we’ll look at optimizing SVG with tools. Tools are those that can reduce the file size of SVG without (hopefully) changing the look of it. Things that are perfect for automation. Like:

• Removing whitespace
• Reducing the precision of numbers
• Removing metadata cruft

The most popular tool for that is SVGO. It is a node-based command tool for optimizing SVG this way. It has a GUI version, so you can just drag-and-drop as well like something like ImageOptim.

If you’re working with SVG a lot, like you’re building out an icon system, may be it will be the best to use the tool into the build system.

10. Using Gruntation- 

Grunticon is a Grunt plugin for automating an SVG icon system. It takes a folder full of SVG and processes them into a CSS file. There are a bunch of selectors in there, based on the file names of the SVG images, that have a background-image of the SVG data URI.

11. Clipping and Masking-

The concept of clipping and masking is simple. Hide certain parts of elements and show remaining. The main difference between them is also simple. Clipping is always a vector path, where inside the path is visible and outside the path is not. 

Where a mask is an image. This image is treated as a grayscale image where the black parts mask the image to transparency and the white parts let the image through.

Implementing clipping and masking isn’t particularly easy. Because browser support for it (and all the little ins-and-outs) is quite varies. We try and go through all of it in this screencast, struggles and all.

The syntax for all the possibilities is:

CSS-

.clip-me { 

  /* referencing path from an inline SVG <clipPath> */

  clip-path: url(#c1); 

/* circle */

  clip-path: circle(30px at 35px 35px);

/* Masking */

/* mask-image, mask-position, mask-repeat, mask-clip, mask-size … */

   mask: url(mask.svg);

   mask-type: luminance || alpha;

   -webkit-mask-box-image: url(stampTiles.svg) 30 repeat;

   mask-border: url(stampTiles.svg) 30 repeat;

}

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