In 2021, we see a lot about the visual impact of the combination of three-dimensional and reality, emoji, natural elements, optical illusions, gold elements and other amazing design works and trends.
In the new year, what kind of changes may occur to these design elements, let's take a look at the latest 2022 design trends!
01
Color trends
1. Lightweight gradient
First of all, it is worth saying that the lightweight gradient belongs to the category of weak gradient, which is characterized by the proximity of the gradient color, the amplitude is gentle, the rhythm is slow, and the sense of integration and delicacy is strong.
Because lightweight gradients mostly choose adjacent colors with high brightness and low saturation, they can well express the "breathing feeling" in the design. This feeling of breathing and transparency is very fresh, so it should continue to be popular in 2022.
2. High saturation contrast
The application of high-saturation colors has become one of the important trends in 2020, because high-saturation colors are more able to attract people's attention, thus effectively attracting the user's visual landing point.
However, although "eye-catching" is very important for brands, we still need to be restrained when using it, because the collocation of over-saturation often causes a certain degree of deviation from the unity of the page, and it is very easy to bring visual fatigue.
Therefore, when designers use this type of color, they usually reduce their saturation and brightness to a certain extent, so that the color is "plump but not crowded", so as to ensure our visual comfort.
In addition, from the highly saturated UI case, we can also see that when matching colors, a large number of adjacent colors are used to create an atmosphere, and then one or two contrasting colors are used to create conflicts, which will make the entire page light and heavy balanced, bringing a good visual experience.
3. Candy color
Candy colors are dominated by sweet feminine colors such as pink, powder blue, pink green, pink yellow, bright purple, lemon yellow, sapphire blue and mustard green, which can bring a delicate, soft feeling. Therefore, even if there are too many colors in one picture, it will not make people feel very conflicted and deviated!
02
Graphical trends
1. Emoji emoji
Emoji is now a visual language that transcends text and can be widely recognized, across cultures and fields, and adding emoji at the end of a text paragraph can better convey emotions, which makes emoji not only a main vision in web pages, texts and even posters, but also brings a very good sense of atmosphere.
In 2021, emoji will not only be widely used, but also widely 3D. Coupled with the emoji of the shadow effect, the conveyance of its emotions has also become richer.
In 2022, the expression of emoji will continue, but its form will be more abundant, such as this "fake 3D" effect
2.3D
When it comes to the 3D expression of emoji, it has to be said that one of the most popular design trends in 2021 is that a large amount of flat content is expressed three-dimensionally by adding the effect of shadows.
Like the Apple application icon that we are familiar with, the design details have become richer and more layered.
In 2022, the 3D design trend will further clarify its own position through continuous development. It offers designers endless possibilities and more room for anything you can imagine.