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A guide of UI design trends for 2021

More 3D, more color, glassmorphism, and great tools! 🤩

Diana Malewicz
UX Collective
5 min readDec 8, 2020

In a month we will (finally!) say goodbye to the not-so-cool year 2020. Since my previous article about trends was quite successful, I took some time and did some industry research, to create a 2021 Design Trend Guide.

Let’s take a look at what 2021 will bring!

Examples of 3d imagery in UI
Left to right: Cuberto, Superlist, afshint2y (instagram), Essentials, Minh Pham

1. 3D Illustrations (yeah, still!)

3D imagery is here to stay — especially when it’s getting easier and easier for regular UI designers to actually create something in 3D! (try the 3D tool called Spline — currently in beta, but so amazing and easy to use!).

3D is also being widely used in full screen animations, as main key visuals — take a look at Superlist or see an amazing 3D tutorial by Minh Pham on how to create a stunning 3D background for your website.

Examples of glassmorphism in UI
Left to right: mandariuiux (instagram), Victor Cardero, Hype4.com, day___dreamer06 (instagram), Blacklead Studio

2. Glassmorphism

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Written by Diana Malewicz

Co-Founder @ HYPE4.com and hype4academy.com | Author of “Designing UI” book | +12 years exp. Lead Designer and Advisor

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This whole post was soothing to my eyes! Thank you!
Small feedback - maybe separate which pictures belong to which trend, perhaps by the dotted lines separator? I kept getting confused if it was "picture -> description" or "description -> picture".

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Glassmorphism is my least favorite ;-)

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Do you mean trends for Dribble shots?

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