Paul Randall » trends https://paulrandall.com Experimenting for a living. Sat, 15 Mar 2025 15:32:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 On ‘Magpie Designers’ https://paulrandall.com/2010/05/26/on-magpie-designers/ https://paulrandall.com/2010/05/26/on-magpie-designers/#comments Wed, 26 May 2010 21:36:21 +0000 http://prandall.com/?p=353 In an ever-changing web world, new technologies are constantly evolving. With the emergence of alternative font display systems, new CSS effects and the increased uptake on modern browsers, designers are using these new techniques more and more. Add this to a sprinkling of current design ‘trends’ such as the noise filter, and pixel perfect line details and it makes for some very similar looking websites.

It is inevitable then that these new and shiny capabilities will catch a web designer’s eye (especially after years of browser constraints) but are we turning our eagerness to use the latest styling techniques into a world of monotonous and similar designs?

A Screenshot Showing Some Modern Design Trends

Modern web design trends

It’s worth saying that there are some great sites being produced at the minute. Something I hope to write about in a future post.

I’m a Magpie Designer Too!

This post isn’t without a sense of irony, i’m all too well aware of as this site features many of the effects i’m talking about. I’m clearly a magpie designer too!

In a years time things will probably calm down when “the next thing” arrives, whatever it is.

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