Notes for Design [Trends] Tips

1. Change the usual patterns

2. Should the designer be able to draw the icons? Absolutely

3. Keep a contrast in UI

1. Keep the main feature highlighted
2. Let users emphasis the right things

4. Presentation

Competition

5. Visual Hierarchy

1. Expectation and reality

2. Tab bar functionality

• heavy, takes up a lot of space;
• standing out the tab

• suitable when the screen doesn’t have a title
• neat / nice visual

• visually clear
• save space of the screen

Consider

1. Who is your audience?
2. Is it simple and unambiguous?
3. Redesign or existing product?

3. Symmetry is boring

4. Reference searching

visual & UI design — the closest reference

explores the related areas - graphics, photographs, fashion magazines and so on.

5. Less is more

• Have to clearly define what goals should be achieved by using your design
• Which elements are essential for the screen?
• Which can be removed or hidden
• It is required to connect as much information as possible and understand the target audience

1. Animation in UI

• Differentiate boring and awesome
• One team to develop UI, another team to develop animation

2. Photo Content in UI

3. Work with fonts

4. Light UI vs. Dark UI

on Dark dashboard, attention is more focused on functional elements

5. Unified pictogram style

1. Subtle animation

2. Neumorphism （同態）

vs skeuomorphism （擬態）

Skeuomorphism / Neumorphism UI Trend

3. Large images

4. Breaking the rules

5. Variable fonts (in a single fonts)

6. Humanity (e.g. Handwriting)

7. Distinctive art direction