The web is a unique environment which is always changing and evolving with new UI design trends. But the more users it attracts, the more essential it becomes to ensure an engaging UI and UX. UX design plays a huge role to make your app or website stand out, and keep your users happy. The good news is, this is not rocket science. You can follow some simple concepts to make sure your users are getting the best experience they deserve.

There is no rule book, no pattern, no logic, yet there is an unsaid code for graphics that trends. This trend is bound to have new avatars in the new year. From colors to dimensions, from graphics to silhouettes, from typography to layout, everything might just scale down or just blow up. But these design trends are set to dominate the world of digital disciplines in 2017.

One of the days when your marketing collateral overhaul is a back burner project, you happen to come across a design that is just too impressive in your face. And then, when it comes to a design inspiration, you quickly raid your laptop’s history to find that great work of art that hasn’t left you yet. Voila! you find it, to assure yourself, that this is THE design you want your project to have.

One such thing happened to us while overhauling our website. And what hit us was an unassuming shape, we call a Hexagon. A typical hexagon is a six sided polygon, to define it simply. But, how does this harmless form of geometry become a nightmare.

Well it starts with that phase, when you appreciate some design. Then this admiration grows into fondness and Hexagons become the smartest thing to have happened in geometry.

The next phase is when you start noticing Hexagons everywhere. So the storyboarding of the project happens, our design is just a cluster of hexagons scrolling up and down the webpage. We are good to go. Then we add animations to them, fair enough. Now that is where the monster wakes up. How would you align a six sided figure, a bunch of them, to pop, slide, appear, or sway across the screen?

So you decide to animate each of them individually, while dancing to a common tune. That was too much music for a website design. Some hexagons jumped, some swayed, some slid etc. But it is not happening. The co-workers start giving their suggestions and inputs. We improvise, but the we are still not there. Stuck on a design we are lagging behind our deadline, numb on creativity, and a team of frustrated designers who just don’t understand what’s the big deal with Hexagons.

Our developers have started hating us, our designers think we are logic less individuals, aimlessly obsessed by a silly shape, our other key projects are getting hit, we are paying one big bunch for months together just to make a few hexagons glide elegantly from right to the left of the screen, and we still have the audacity to try, once more! Why? Because they are different, they represent complexity with a simple shape, and because you like them.

This is what hexagons can do to you. Well, this has happened with most of us, who work in creative environments. Those times, when you feel, was creativity really your calling, were you actually hired for it?

How do you shake it off:

And if this is not enough, there are apps to help: