3D is becoming unpopular!
Posted by Adam Roberts
9 years in the web industry and I have seen the web separate into 4 sections. The most popular section now is the use of vector illustration, and flat based websites with gradients, points and blended shapes. Many websites being somewhat glossy, also known as the web 2.0 design trend. In the beginning of 2008, being a CSS gallery watcher, I had started to recognise that a lot of these websites are becoming more popular by the day. And the way these websites are being built design wise, is improving dramatically. Question is, “How far is web 2.0 going to go, will there be an end?”
The second section would have to be flash. There are thousands of websites being built in flash every year, but are not widely recognised compared to web 2.0. A question that I ask myself all the time is, “Why is flash not the best way to build your website?”
Many people will argue at the fact that Flash should be used depending on the websites type. For example, Ford. Ford could have been done in either plain html/css, using a content management system, however they chose to give the user, that wow factor when visiting the website. So why do designers, tend to ignore the use of flash today?
Now for the third section, I decided to give this to very informative websites, one’s which are built with no styling, or no design at all. These are still widely popular when searching in Google. We have all seen these, and I doubt there will be a day when we can discard them.
I decided to put the 3D section at 4th, because we are not seeing many websites at all with the use of this. Ignoring the use of 3D in flash websites, just 3D alone is becoming unpopular. The only genre I have seen 3D being used very well, is in the gaming industry. A very great example of 3D being used, would have to be at High Fidelity, which was designed and built by the guys at 9dots. I believe that this sort of website immediately attracts the users attention, where the great use of detail is immense.
So here’s the question for you readers, “Do you think the use of 3D should come back?“
