In 2021, we’ve seen a lot of visual impact in terms of 3d meets reality, emoji, nature, optical illusion, gold and other amazing design works and trends. With some of these design elements likely to change in the New Year, let’s take a look at the latest 2022 design trends!

  • Color trends

Lightweight gradient

First of all, light gradient is worth mentioning. Light gradient belongs to the category of weak gradient, which is characterized by adjacent colors, gentle amplitude, slow rhythm, strong sense of fusion and delicate sense.

Because the light gradient will choose those adjacent colors with high lightness and low saturation, it can well express the “sense of breathing” in the design. This sense of breathing and permeability is so refreshing that it should be here to stay in 2022.

High saturation contrast color

The application of high saturation colors has become an important trend in 2020, because colors with high saturation can attract people’s attention and effectively attract users’ visual points.

Although “eye attraction” is very important for the brand, we still need to refrain from using it, because collocation with excessive saturation often causes deviation to the unity of the page to a certain extent, and it is very easy to bring visual fatigue.

Therefore, when designers use this kind of color, they usually reduce its saturation and lightness to a certain extent, so that the color is “rich but not crowded”, so as to ensure our visual comfort.

In addition, from the case of high saturation UI, we can also see that when matching colors, choose a large number of adjacent colors to create an atmosphere, and then use one or two contrasting colors to produce conflicts, which will make the weight of the whole page balance, bringing a good visual experience.

Candy color

Candy colors are dominated by sweet feminine colors such as pink, powder blue, powder green, powder yellow, bright purple, lemon yellow, sapphire blue and mustard green, which can bring a slim, soft feeling. So even if there is too much color in a picture, it will not make people feel very conflict and deviation!

  • Graphic trend

Emoji face

Emoticons in nowadays is a beyond the text and can be widely in the field of cognition, across cultures and a visual language, at the end of a paragraph and Emoji can better convey emotion, which makes the emoticons are not only in web pages, text, and even as the main visual in the poster, can bring a very good sense of atmosphere.

In 2021, emoji will not only be widely used, they will also be widely 3D. With the shadow effect of emoji, its emotional communication becomes richer.

In 2022, emoji expression will continue, but in more varied forms, such as the “fake 3D” effect

In 3 d

Speaking of 3D expression of emoji, we have to say that one of the most popular design trends in 2021 is that a large amount of flat content is expressed in stereo by adding the effect of shadow.

As we are familiar with the Apple app Icon, its design details become richer and more layered.

And the design trend of 222, 3D will further clarify its position through continuous development. It gives designers endless possibilities, more room for anything you can imagine.

In 2022, we will also see more designs about the perfect combination of 2D and 3D. As shown in the case below, the interaction between hand-drawn line fingers and sphere expressions not only makes the whole page more interesting and vivid, but also fully demonstrates the advantages of both design methods of 2D3D.

Glass mimicry

Similarly, the frosted glass effect that was so popular in 2021, we’ll see a richer expression in 2022

For example, this group of effect pictures that are very popular on Dribble recently, is based on the plane, the effect of ground glass is applied to 3D objects, so that the overall sense of virtual reality is more vivid, but also to add a little different vitality to the design.

In addition, we can see that this trend has clearly moved to glass and crystal textures, and has taken graphic design to a whole new level with incredible three-dimensional realism. So, 2022 will also see more elements like transparent textures and realistic glass backgrounds complementing holographic and 3D trends.

Geometric abstraction

In contrast to the realistic 3D style, the design style of 2022 May also start to move toward abstraction. Use geometry to express images and color to convey emotions. Less tedious decoration, with a more concise and powerful way to convey the design concept.

When fractal shapes are perfectly combined with color, an attractive visual effect can be created.

  • “Language

Indeed, there always seem to be similarities in design trends from year to year, and the design styles for 2022 are evolving and developing from 2021. Therefore, it is more important that we should learn to accumulate these design materials continuously, and constantly review our own design works, and learn to combine the design ideas of others with our own design inspiration, so as to become a designer with output ability all the time

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