Neumorphism will NOT be a huge trend in 2020

So… what will?

Ok I admit it — it was fun to co-create a name for this “exciting new trend” but I never imagined it will go that far.

Many blogs and twitter posts are calling it the “next great thing for 2020” already. Let me pop that little bubble before it outgrows us all.

Shots with #neumorphism started showing up but most of the “light” ones look almost exactly the same…

Neumorphism is not versatile enough to be a popular design style. Especially in real, coded products.

Sure you can do it in Dark Mode and you can choose from a variety of a couple different off-white background colors. That gives us six possible styles but the differences between them are too small.

Don’t do buttons!

Currently the style is being overused to create anything from cards to buttons, often breaking the rules I tried to outline here. I know it looks nice as a pressed state but for many people it’s not visible enough as the change is too…