How to Enjoy the Return of the Web Design Trends Session
If you have been busy with work for the past few years and have not been able to catch up on many things, or if you watched many trends when you were younger but have moved away from them, I think simply attending will help you catch up on many topics. But that is not the only highlight.
Previously, I wrote about the bonus.
This time I will introduce ways to enjoy the session outside the main Web Design Trends content itself.
Highlight 1: Speaker Introduction Slides
One highlight is the speaker introduction slides. Every time, I ask Yano-san to create them. There is no particular order or request, so I myself do not know what will come out. Sometimes it is a Star Wars parody, sometimes a Your Name parody, and sometimes it uses trend styles as motifs.
This time, unusually, the speaker introduction slide has been released in advance.
What is the concept? How was it made? Usually it passes by for only a moment at the beginning, but this time I am thinking of asking a little about it.
The speaker introduction slides are like that, and the title slides also incorporate various trends each time. For example, they may use trend colors or trend shapes. What will it be like this time? Let us check together on the day.
Highlight 2: Appreciating Trends That Go Around and Around
The Web Design Trends session is not the kind of session that tries to introduce only new things every time or only innovative things. So there are often styles that have been popular many times in the past, or things where we say, "This tendency is still continuing this year too." If the research shows that, we present it as-is.
The session is not composed only from Hara's viewpoint. It is built by combining the viewpoints of all the speakers. That means even I do not know what we will end up covering until close to the session. I imagine the people requesting the session may feel anxious about not knowing what output will come, but it cannot be helped because we do not know until the time comes.
This year's Web Design Trends session has "Return" in the title because it is being held after a long time, with quite a gap since the previous session. So this time we decided to include topics from after the previous session up to today as a whole.
Sometimes people ask whether I get bored from continuing to look at these things. Certainly, if it were only a moderate amount, there might come a time when I would get bored. But after continuing for years, and then for more than ten years, the feeling of getting bored or everything looking the same disappeared long ago. Now I can enjoy things going around many times as if they were seasonal changes.
Just as we do not get tired of spring, I think one appeal of this session is that we can enjoy small transitions through redesigns as seasonal pleasures, and feel the richness of Japan and the world through the small differences that visit every year.
Well, you could also say the session itself has aged.
Highlight 3: Enjoying the Short Column "Eyes"
The Web Design Trends session is often more than one hour even when short, and sometimes reaches two hours when long. If site introductions continue endlessly, the repetition can become monotonous. So from fairly early on, we have included a short column section by each speaker.
These are usually about five minutes long, and each speaker introduces things from their own perspective that did not fit into the topics introduced in the main flow. I do not know the other speakers' "eyes" until shortly before the event, and I do not know the content until the day itself, so this is content I personally look forward to a lot.
So, it seems there are still a few participant slots left. Please join us.