The Returning Web Design Trends session wrapped up successfully
"The Returning Web Design Trends," officially titled the 45th Recri Seminar "The Returning Web Design Trends & A11y Osaka Meetup," was held on July 12 and somehow wrapped up successfully, so this is a report entry.
Photo by Mizuho Koyama
As I wrote in an earlier entry, this event was a collaboration with A11y Osaka Meetup. The structure was that after the usual Web design trends session, the discussion would move into what those trend expressions look like from an accessibility perspective.
I wrote three pre-event information entries:
Because this was an offline study event in Osaka for the first time in a while, I was able to meet many people I had not seen in ages. There are already many people in the Kanto area I have not seen for years, but in Kansai it really had been years and years for some people. Experiences like this reminded me again of the appeal of offline events.
That said, I do not get to run design trends sessions in that many different places, and in recent years I think I have more often done design trend sessions for specific companies. Those are closer to internal study sessions, so they are not the same as speaking together with Yano-san and Sakamoto-san.
The category we research for Web design trends is limited when viewed against the Web as a whole, but even within that limited area there are many different tendencies. The thing I always struggle with is what to include and what to leave out. Especially when there is some new-looking expression, I ask myself every time whether it can really be called a trend and whether some strange bias is influencing the judgment.
I generally think Web design trends researched by one person alone are questionable. But trends that emerge from the research of three different personalities, Sakamoto-san, Yano-san, and me, probably capture something meaningful. I would be happy if the session gave attendees something to think about.