In this 10 minute interview with Maryam Taheri Growth Marketing Manager @CreativeMarket we talk about Web Professional Trends for 2014 including Web design and Social Media Trends:
* What old is new again (flat design, simplicity and minimalism)
* Home page sliders are disappearing
* Single page scrolling
* User centered design
* Less can be more
* Long extensive contact forms are fading for simplistic design
* Making complex things simple
* Logo and banners ads are changing
* Typography is in with information looking beautiful
* Using less fonts ( 2-3) are the trend
* Less Flash
* Parallax design us still controversial among designers
* Social media jobs are the trend
* Social scheduling is a trend
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More about Parallax
According to Wikipedia, Parallax is a displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight, and is measured by the angle or semi-angle of inclination between those two lines.[1][2] The term is derived from the Greek ?????????? (parallaxis), meaning “alteration”. Nearby objects have a larger parallax than more distant objects when observed from different positions, so parallax can be used to determine distances.
Astronomers use the principle of parallax to measure distances to celestial objects including to the Moon, the Sun, and to stars beyond the Solar System. For example, the Hipparcos satellite took measurements for over 100,000 nearby stars. This provides a basis for other distance measurements in astronomy, the cosmic distance ladder. Here, the term “parallax” is the angle or semi-angle of inclination between two sight-lines to the star.
Parallax also affects optical instruments such as rifle scopes, binoculars, microscopes, and twin-lens reflex cameras that view objects from slightly different angles. Many animals, including humans, have two eyes with overlapping visual fields that use parallax to gain depth perception; this process is known as stereopsis. In computer vision the effect is used for computer stereo vision, and there is a device called a parallax rangefinder that uses it to find range, and in some variations also altitude to a target.
A simple everyday example of parallax can be seen in the dashboard of motor vehicles that use a needle-style speedometer gauge. When viewed from directly in front, the speed may show exactly 60; but when viewed from the passenger seat the needle may appear to show a slightly different speed, due to the angle of viewing.