Avoid These Design Trends

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10 Design Trends I Don’t Want to See in 2014

by Carrie Cousins on 3rd February 2014

We talk a lot about emerging trends and how to make them work in a variety of design projects. But there are some design techniques that I am, quite frankly, sick of seeing. They are overused, overdone and just not effective anymore. (And if you use them, you risk having a design that looks like a lot of other stuff out there.)

Today, we’re going to take a look at 10 design trends that have outlasted their time. Do yourself a favor and really think about removing each of these tricks from your 2014 projects.

Post continues at link. My least favorite trends are script typefaces and thin type.

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Many of the trends are rooted in skeumorphism, which is design that uses elements and tricks to make graphical representations emulate physical objects -- cues ranging from functioning knobs in video processing software; to tabs that behave like real, paper folder tabs; to the shutter-click sound used on smartphones.