{"id":4510,"date":"2021-08-15T16:16:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T16:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waterscapetech.com\/?p=4510"},"modified":"2021-08-15T16:16:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T16:16:10","slug":"modern-web-design-trends-for-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waterscapetech.com\/modern-web-design-trends-for-2021","title":{"rendered":"Modern Web Design Trends for 2021 (Minimalism)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It only takes\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/01449290500330448\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>50 <\/strong><\/a><strong>milliseconds<\/strong>\u00a0for visitors to form an opinion about your website. That\u2019s right \u2013 in just a fraction of a second, they\u2019ll decide whether your site looks professional, and whether they want to stay or leave. And\u00a0<strong>94% of those first impressions<\/strong>\u00a0are\u00a0design related.<\/p>\n<p>In short, visitors will immediately judge your website based on the quality of its design.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2021 will call for a user-first approach to web design<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 a trend confirmed by Google in its recent announcement that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/google-page-experience-update-to-launch-in-may-2021-343581\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">page experience will become a ranking factor<\/a>\u00a0this year. Factors such as usability, page-speed, mobile-friendliness, and security will all have a huge part to play in securing higher Google rankings. The message is clear: if you want to rank well, you need to put users first when designing your website.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you\u2019re building a new website or wondering how to improve an existing one, we\u2019re here to help you make an impact for the right reasons. We\u2019ve tracked the trends, analyzed the stats, and are ready to show you how to make your site look\u00a0<em>awesome<\/em>\u00a0in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t lose visitors, sales, or social shares because of sketchy web design \u2013 check out these trends and statistics, and make\u00a0<em>good<\/em>\u00a0design choices instead!<\/p>\n<h2>Minimalism<\/h2>\n<p>Minimalism has become a design trend that refuses to quit and a go-to for web designers over the last decade. Minimalist design is based around using only essential elements, such as shapes, clean text, limited colors and empty space, to create a webpage that is simple, functional, and impactful.<\/p>\n<p>Colorful minimalism is also on the rise, featuring block colors and bold backgrounds, simple sans serif fonts and minimalist design elements to create a simple yet attractive website design. This approach to web design will continue to be a key component to providing an intuitive and memorable user experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It only takes\u00a050 milliseconds\u00a0for visitors to form an opinion about your website. That\u2019s right \u2013 in just a fraction of a second, they\u2019ll decide whether your site looks professional, and whether they want to stay or leave. And\u00a094% of those first impressions\u00a0are\u00a0design related. In short, visitors will immediately judge your website based on the quality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,86,38,57,33,28,52],"tags":[126],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waterscapetech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waterscapetech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waterscapetech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waterscapetech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waterscapetech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.waterscapetech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waterscapetech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waterscapetech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waterscapetech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waterscapetech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}