What trends are you seeing in web design?

[brettreasure]

Drafting a press release for the Association about this. Are you noticing changes in what designers are delivering to clients? How is the site you design today different to two years ago?

[d@n]

Blurry colourful backgrounds is the latest trend.

[jexley]

Seems everything looks more Portally lately. Like a window into some beautiful place where people are cool and have just-the-right-amount of stubble. Usually some sort of larger image in the middle of the page, not necessarily a background.

[heist]

i don't know about trends, but humaan just launched a new site that is rocking my sox0rz.

http://www.humaan.com.au/

[rosemary]

I think we'll see more animation and movement plus greater engagement/interactivity via hooking in with mobile technology, geolocation and these blasted social networks.

As an example of what I am talking about see the brilliantly conceived and produced http://www.brandongenerator.com/ (NB Don't be overly put off by the "works best in IE9" front page as the project is for MS Internet Explorer - so take that with a grain of salt - the site works perfectly for me in Safari...

I think we'll see more of this... the lines between movies, tv, apps etc will continue to blur.

[jexley]

That thing is really, really cool. It's not a warning about which browser to use either, it's a blatant push to use Windows 7 and Internet Explorer, given that both are listed prolifically on the site as producers.

Still though, if they make cool stuff like this, then it's only a matter of time before somebody does it that's NOT a megalomaniacal brutishly huge corporation bent on global domination. Could be YOU even.