Title: Webdesign Development
Course: EDesign_webprojects_eng > Section: Introduction

60 min
In this unit you will get a short overview of some developments in web design!

In the early days, the Internet was a collection of static and interlinked information sources, but since the mid/late 1990s the development of dynamic Internet sites has been increasing. Source: Web Engineering for Asynchronous Applications - Jan Zahalka, 2006.

Principles of modern web design

- User becomes more central (user experience)
- Changes in user behaviour
- Conceptual design gains a greater role

In the development of web applications, two innovations have prevailed in recent years.

Server-side point of view - API

Large and well-known web applications such as Google with its various products or Facebook offer APIs (application programming interfaces) in addition to their web applications. These interfaces make it possible to connect a part of these web services to another web application.

Client-side point of view – RIA

Rich Internet Application, or RIA for short, provides a desktop application in a web browser without the need to install any software. For example, it allows the user to drag and drop, animate or integrate different media.

Here are two examples of how web design has changed in the last 10 years.

2002

2019

2003

2021

Source: webdesignmuseum.org