What Does The Future Of Web Design Hold? Discuss

The web moves incredibly fast, the rise of websites like Facebook showcases just how fast! But what about web design, is that moving forward? Are we able to design better websites now than we were 5 years ago?

Web design software has got better, and more people ‘getting into’ computers, the internet and online business means more clever brains to come up with better design ideas. Many more webmasters also understand about effective coding. So in that sense web design has certainly got better and we are able to design better websites, look across the major websites – they are much nicer now than they were 5 years ago!

However, there has never been any great revolution of massive changes like there has elsewhere on the web. The biggest thing I’ve noticed is everyone going on about shifting from HTML to CSS, fair enough it  does have some great benefits, but it isn’t a big change, especially not visually.

Where I See The Big Changes Coming
Funnily enough I see the big changes in terms of web design are going to come as a result of the search engines (isn’t everything already?!). If they are getting better at reading flash then it will get used much more often, which visually is a very good thing. The fight between SEO’s and designers could be no more!

In January this year google also filed a patent for recognizing text in images, this would surely lead to more usage of images and changing the ways in which we edit and create images. So if Google can interpret flash and images very well the amount of text will drop but webmasters will still be able to get their message across, just in a nicer looking way!

What do you think the future of web design holds?