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The 5 main anti-trends in design
Everything is cool, until it isn’t cool anymore.

Trends come and go. Especially in the UI world, designers are easily getting hooked on the newest crazes, without putting them under thorough consideration.
As much as I don’t want to demonize trends, some of them, if used thoughtlessly, might be a real disaster to a product.
As beautifully as they look on a flattened composition of screens, creating an visually stunning mosaic — they won’t be functional or easy to use at all. Some of the trends are becoming so popular, that the popularity of a certain look or effect is a danger to a product itself — the products on the market are starting to look like the army of clones — with no originality and no recognizability factor.
Let’s take a look at them.

1. The same type of illustration syndrome
It started about two years ago — photos were just not cool anymore. And so the massive production and usage of illustrated people, objects and entire scenes has started.