The continued changes, recommendations, and upgrades that UX UI has endured are an ongoing topic that sees a blog every year. Last year, we had NeuFlat Designing, Motion Designing, and Scrollytelling, among others, suggesting the direction in which the design world is progressing.

Likewise, this year, we have interesting aspects that further align us with the approach shaping the 2024 handbook of UX UI. If you wish to get acquainted with last year’s piece, click here. Upon reading it, continue to scroll below for the top UX UI trends shaping 2024.

• Reimagining hero sections

In the run-up to making a good first impression, designers have targeted the hero section of a website. In 2024, we will witness the deconstruction of the hero section, taking us away from conventional methods.

Bold typography and unaligned images are just a few examples of what will make this portrait look beautiful. As the idea is to move away from the conventional method, designers can expect to stir up their creativity and create hero sections that are worth another watch.

With memorability as the target, let’s wait and watch how designers reimagine hero sections of websites.

• Innovating the cursor

The cursor is one of those many details often ignored in the final picture. It is a minute component that adds many benefits, conveniently helping people navigate, interact with, and access all kinds of websites.

Designers have been thinking and rethinking different ways to present the cursor. While this revolution started in 2023, it seems to have carried on in 2024, propelling it to the top and making it a trend for 2024.

Unlike the traditional approach of redesigning a cursor for aesthetics, the new wave is also focused on enhancing user experience. So, the new prototypes will be delightful to view and beneficial to use.

There are already a dozen options in sight, as designers can explore endless possibilities. Changes in size, color, and more while hovering are a few of the basics being considered.

• Exploring glass morphism

User interfaces will look and feel different, and glass morphism is one of the many reasons for this. What is glass morphism? It is a new trend that uses a glass-like effect to develop interfaces with dimension and depth.

Some of the critical features of this trend include,

1. Minimalism
2. Accessibility
3. Dynamic effects and
4. Cross-platform compatibility

The effects generated through this trend, most notably transparency and light refraction, make interfaces look modern. While the trend first gained popularity in 2020, it has continued to develop and evolve.

Exploring such trends in 2024 calls for services adapted to the latest technology and knowledge of the design world. Only a credible UX UI agency can offer your website a much-needed glass morphism-style makeover.

• AI’s continuing saga

The integration of AI into the design world is now considered a trend of the past. However, it continues to evolve and prominently makes its way to our list of the best UX UI trends of 2024. Designers have used AI for personalization, accessibility, automation, and more.

The predictive analysis provided by AI plays a central role in understanding user behavior and shaping designs that match business goals and objectives. The information generated through AI also helps designers create better user interfaces that adapt to users’ needs.

Moreover, generative designs are also improving by the day, as these algorithms can generate solutions based on parameters and constraints. Hence, the future sees a unique collaboration between a designer and their assistant, AI.

• Data simplification through visualization

Complex datasets are viewed differently than they need to be viewed. It takes immense effort to break down these complexities, leaving one to wonder why they were presented. And that’s where another trend emerges.

Data needs to be simplified, and for that, data visualization has become the new norm. Advances in UX UI designs and developments in coding have helped our designers break down complexities and present digestible data.

The user-friendly ways to do so include,

1. Infographics
2. Images
3. Mind maps
4. Flowcharts and more.

These tools, among others, have helped present things in more detail, taking the user toward the most critical points. While the trend was to simplify data, there’s another part towards it in presenting data creatively.

• Exploring interactions via multimodal interfaces

We are entering an era of different types of interfaces, some more advanced than others and some more user-friendly than others. These interfaces and many more will always be accepted, provided they are deemed user-centric.
With multimodal, we are looking to access interfaces through various inputs, including manual gestures, touch, speech, and pen. They are meant to align with human interactions and be more advanced in understanding human needs.

• Wellness in the digital era

Digital wellbeing is becoming more prominent in today’s digital era. While we are often connected to people via technology, we are disconnected from the individual who matters the most: ourselves.

Understanding one’s needs is often lost in an era where technology takes center stage. Having changed the way we work and live, technology’s sense of control over us has been incremental in shaping human decisions.

As a matter of importance, apps also include features like screen time and other digital wellbeing tools to keep everyone aware of their usage. Understanding your screen time is the first step towards making changes because we need to be mindful before we act.

• The fine line between personalization and privacy

In this day and age, users want personalized or tailored experiences. From options to recommendations, they need to match an individual’s preferences. To achieve this, brands collect data, analyze it, and try to provide users with what they want.

However, in doing so, a fine line is constantly being crossed as we move towards privacy. Matching an individual’s preferences is one thing, and violating their privacy is another. Clubbing them together tends to cross a line, and in 2024, people will be more aware of this trend.

It is a challenge because, without personalized user experiences, one cannot create designs that add storytelling or emotions. So, how do you overcome this challenge? Well, remember to

• Create well-defined goals that help your business and respect an individual’s privacy.
• Educate your users about privacy laws and seek their permission before extracting information.
• Develop a broader understanding of your users so that you can think from their perspective.

Until next time

The trends mentioned above will paint a wider picture of the design world in 2024. They will undergo changes and be developed as time brings in new tech and new ideas. These changes will either move towards 2025, or we will witness new trends.

Either way, design trends develop the landscape and give us a sense of direction. However, navigating through that road requires an expert who understands what needs to be done and where it needs to be done.