The new year is right around the corner, and it is time to consider how your business will stand out in 2022. With increased eCommerce and online presence over the past couple of years, there is more competition than ever. This is why it is so important to keep your online shops and websites as up-to-date as possible. Unwired Web Solutions offers custom web development and custom web app development to help your business thrive in the upcoming year ahead. 

One of the biggest trends for the upcoming year is an increased sense of playfulness in web design. Many designers have started creating sites that simply exist for play and delight. Web design is moving into the future by using advanced interactions and animations built with no-code tools, enabling designers to create them faster and easier than ever before.

Scavenger Hunts

Creating a scavenger hunt can work incredibly well when trying to make a website more fun and engaging. This new trend creates website structures that lend themselves to puzzles and scavenger hunts. Pages are daisy-chained and password-protected, making visitors provide answers or find clues to unlock the next page in the series.

Web designers are coming up with many creative ways to reveal prompts, clues, and answers. Some common ideas for clues include drawing a shape, finding a hidden clickable element on the page, and finding a word hidden in your main site.

Just remember to give your audience a workaround if you want everyone to be able to make it to the end. The scavenger hunt can be very useful for revealing a product launch, releasing a new video, or giving customers a hidden piece of information.

Art Deco Design Motifs

Art deco motifs have been trending over the past few years. Associations with the art deco style are often ornate Speakeasy sites or Gatsby-themed pages, all of which can make for beautifully minimalist designs.

For 2022, the trend takes inspiration from the curved, clean lines and repetitive graphic shapes of art deco illustration. These elements can inspire fonts, logos, spacer motifs, and illustrations in web design.

Oversized, Interactive Typography

A fresh new bold design trend for this year includes typography of unusual size. Beyond a specific size, text becomes more of a graphic element than simply part of the content. This unique technique can be used in minimalist or maximalist designs just as effectively and can suit many different styles.

Typography can be used as an overlay on a moving film or image, and the text can partially block the image making the viewer curious to see more. Or it can simply be used to create a sophisticated ultra-minimalist design on a neutral background.

But designers aren’t stopping there. Many are taking text even further and finding creative ways to make it move and play with the user’s mouse. In 2022 we will see more oversized typography that becomes animated when the cursor hovers over the text. This design element on a website has been shown to make the site feel more immersive.

Design In The New Year

While these are just a few examples of the web design trends for 2022, you can get an idea about the way designs are moving in the new year. At Unwired Web Solutions, we offer custom web development to incorporate some new trends for the new year. Staying up to date with your web design shows your customers that you care about your brand and always bring it into the future. For more information on our services, contact us today!