Design
Tastemaking: 2019 Design Trends
Whenever you write a design trend article, I think it’s required to mention how much you hate design trend articles, and how they’re always way behind the times, and how the trends are always stupid, and how Dropbox already did it last year, and how, simply by writing about it, you’ve either doomed it to never actually happen, or end it before it even had a chance.
So now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, here are some design trends I’ve noticed cropping up lately, and my predictions for 2019 and beyond.
1. Cozy Design
Design has gotten so…cold. And sterile. And lifeless. Apps and entire brands have started to feel like hospitals and laboratories.
“Cozy Design” is all about a feeling of warmth, comfort, and relaxation. It’s about reintroducing humanity back into design. Think “hygge” (kinda sounds like hugh-gah):
One Medical is doing a phenomenal job reinventing the sterile medical industry by injecting (we’re doing medical puns now) some coziness into the user experience…
