Take a look at whitehouse.gov from 1999 compared to the current whitehouse.gov. It is amazing to look back at the last decade and see how web design has progressed, but why such a dramatic shift? Surprisingly, it has little to do with the design. Although updates in software like Photoshop and fast broadband internet have helped out a lot, the main reasons are the latest programming languages, like CSS, Ajax & Javascript. These have enabled designers to finally remove the shackles of having to design for the web. These days basically any design imaginable can be created and showcased to the world.
Design hasn’t changed that much in the last decade, but now that it has no boundaries with web design I believe it will coincide with design progression as a whole. Therefore, I do not believe we will be seeing the dramatic changes in the next decade as we have in the past.
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