9 Web Design Trends 2025 to Spruce Up Your Site

In this video, Chris shares nine essential web design trends to follow in 2025 to make your website stand out. From intentional imperfection to micro interactions, he provides insights and examples on how these trends can help improve user engagement and the overall functionality of your site. Make sure to like, subscribe, and share your thoughts on which trends you're excited about or skeptical of implementing.

For the full blog post go here:

00:00 Introduction
02:05 Trend 1: Intentional Imperfection
03:23 Trend 2: Micro Interactions
04:32 Trend 3: Bright and Bold Designs
05:56 Trend 4: Text-Heavy Sites
07:55 Trend 5: Cursor Alternatives
08:49 Trend 6: Sound Elements
10:14 Trend 7: Scrollytelling
12:02 Trend 8: Navigation Beyond Up and Down
13:36 Trend 9: Anti-Usability
15:58 Conclusion

Website Examples
Trend 1: Intentional Imperfection

Trend 2: Microinteractions

Trend 3: Bright and Bold Designs

Trend 4: Text Heavy Sites

Trend 5: Cursor Alternatives

Trend 6: Sound Elements

Trend 7: Scrollytelling

Trend 8: Navigation Beyond Up and Down

Trend 9: Anti-Usability

[khanhfident]

I'm a resume writer. I just implemented a pen cursor on my website! It looks so cool and unique! Thank you!!!

[mehdimitchel]

The new trends are literally what made the glorious days of Flash websites 😂

[buoyantdesignstudio]

I am all about usability/accessibility, so I won’t abandon that anytime soon. However, I am actively thinking of ways I can make the experience more playful.

[RaymondTheThird]

Honestly this is one of the best ones I've seen yet. It focused on functionalities vs styles

[simonkramer]

Great video thanks for the update. I was thinking about new trends earlier today because i'm in website building mode.

[AlexanderHayes-bx]

Applied this to my project immediately — worked perfectly.

[NoahHarris-eq]

This tutorial was a total game-changer for me. Thank you!

[TheGospelBear]

Thank you so much for this great information. These trends are beginning to make me want to throw my whole 17-year design career away. The further we get into the future, the more I hate design

[ANNUITASdesign]

Almost all of these are new to me as being popular. I feel like I've been out of the loop for awhile, but honestly, may have been a good thing. Some things feel fresh again, which is exciting, challenging, and inspiring.
I gave up paying attention to trends because they were pretty much the same year to year.

Personally, I'm not a fan of music auto-playing, but regardless of trends, design for the audience you want/need to attract.

[ProperCroc]

Gorgeous vid, thanks for the input! It takes real craft to make a video like this with such good examples, while not dwelving so much into the technical aspects. Makes it much more entertaining!🎉

[TonyasDynamicDesigns]

Excellent video! I am so happy to see that music on a website is becoming more popular! I have added audio to websites and eBay stores since 2006! It adds a very cool touch to them just like the audio that I added to "Vin Diesel's Fan Club" site to create a cool effect with the car video at the main top of his site!

[integrityispriceless]

Wooooaaah.

Just had a lightbulb moment. That voice. You are The "Self-Made Web Designer".

It’s like a gym brother advicing on lifting weights is a former Olympian. Your podcast were so good brother.

God bless you.

[kat.irwin.design]

Haha I love that you said "Its almost like designers were frustrated with the clients asking to make the logo bigger" 😂

Great examples here! And I love your focus on the goals of the website rather than just the visuals.

[emilyj]

I really enjoyed the trends and your cadence — can’t wait to see more from your channel. Thanks so much! :D

[AnnaLiriel]

Every trend is engaging and worth considering as an idea. I especially like the concept of an interactive cursor and scrolltelling. :)

[sonyaborisova]

The scrolltelling might be the thing I’ve been waiting for, to finally push myself and learn to code

[christianclemens]

That was great, man. Love your observations.

[alexandralacheva]

Heyy man, I just found you on YouTube, really like your vibe and the content is great! The background music is too loud for me, but maybe is something with my headphones. I remember myspace hahaa, with you the best

[silsois]

really cool video, 1st time I've seen one of yours! loved the anti-usability perspective :)

[scottyhayden]

I found your list informative, actionable and inspiring. The inclusion of examples is gratefully appreciated. Now that I've subscribed I am looking forward to checking out your previous posts -- as well what comes next. Fantastic work!