WordPress Design Trends

What does the current WordPress design landscape look like? What are popular and upcoming design trends to look out for? We’ll take a look at the current WordPress design ecosystem and explore how it’s projected to change in the next year.

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1. WordPress Design Trends
2. I am Mel Choyce • Design Engineer at Automattic • WordPress core contributor • Live in Boston, MA • @melchoyce | choycedesign.com | melchoyce.com
3. Trends are just tools
4. Industry Trends
5. WordPress can do almost anything
6. Microsites for 
 Big Companies
13. Tech Blogs
19. News / Big Media
25. Enterprise
28. Celebrities
31. Apps
34. Future
37. Visual Trends
38. Syncing up with Industry Trends Faster
39. Standardization of Design Patterns
40. Material Design
42. Flat Design
43. http://designmodo.github.io/Flat-UI/
44. Mobile Patterns
 on the Web
45. Off-Screen Menus
47. https://thethemefoundry.com/wordpress-themes/bailey/
48. Single Column Designs
50. https://wordpress.com/themes/ecto
52. https://wordpress.com/themes/scrawl
53. Modular Design
55. Cards
56. Tiles
58. http://www.84paris.com/en/home
61. Animation
62. Animation
63. Animation (Bad)
64. Animation (Bad)
65. Parallax on the Decline
66. Immersive, Media-Rich Experiences
68. http://brandts.dk/
71. Video Headers 
 or Backgrounds
74. Designing to Drive Reader Engagement
75. Read time
77. Progression
79. Infinite Scrolling
 of Posts
81. Design that Look 
 More Like Print
82. Richer, More Refined Typography
87. Complex and Asymmetrical Grids
89. https://dribbble.com/shots/2131697-Bear-Mattress-Full
91. https://dribbble.com/shots/2003347-Troubadour-Goods-product-page
93. https://dribbble.com/shots/2132930-CHX-Studio-Creative-Production
94. Future
95. Gradients Making a Comeback
98. https://dribbble.com/shots/2124489-The-Opoiki-Free-PSD
99. Illustration
100. https://dribbble.com/shots/2128057-Whale-Migration
101. http://www.altosadventure.com/
102. https://dribbble.com/shots/2131995-Home
103. Theme Trends
104. Responsive Web Design
106. It’s not a trend: it’s an expectation Go responsive or go home.
107. “Responsive” is the #1 used feature filter in the WordPress.org Theme Directory (Leading the #2 filter by 19.1%) https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/meta/p1435859343000128
108. “Though 79% of [Themeforest] themes say they’re responsive, these make up 93% of overall earnings.” http://inside.envato.com/pressnomics/
109. Resolution Independence
111. Icon Fonts
113. Icon Fonts
114. SVG
115. https://wordpress.org/plugins/ricg-responsive-images/
116. Specialization
117. “WordPress theme buyers are often characterized as wanting the highest number of features that can be crammed into a single theme. Our search data contradicts this.” http://inside.envato.com/pressnomics/
118. “Over 70% of ThemeForest searches are focused around niche themes.” http://inside.envato.com/pressnomics/
119. Thank you! @melchoyce | choycedesign.com | melchoyce.com