Top 8 Digital Design Trends of 2016

Writing code is so much more than simply cranking out scripts and tags. When it comes to building a website, design is absolutely essential to the quality of your work. Where certain principles of design are timeless and transcend all mediums, trends in digital design move quickly in response to innovation and consumer demands. Staying up to date with the emerging and established trends in web design is beneficial to anyone who wants to write code for a living.

To understand the elements of current design trends is to understand the architecture of the web, its capabilities, and the way users will interact with it. Take a look at this infographic from Coastal Creative that outlines some of 2016’s top digital design trends: