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There really seems a return to the minimal in design lately, something I’m more than happy to see after the gradient madness of the last year or so. I’m seeing more and more new designs coming out where less is really more. Galleries seem to be once again brimming full of powerful minimal design, it’s a refreshing change. In part minimal design never went away it seems now the focus is coming back to it though as it rightly deserves as one of the most effective and often hardest to achieve design styles. So, what does make a minimal design?

One of the most noticeable things about a lot of sites done in the after glow of the brand name web 2.0 is the virus of the tabs. If it’s navigation it seems nowadays if it’s not ‘tabbed’ it’s just not hip with the kids. However, just with any samey trend the reverse effect is reached of mind numbing clones. Somewhere along the hype and band wagon jumping tabs came to mean the same rounded gloss or not gloss (you get a choice in gloss at least) boredom.