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New UI Design Trends - Vibrant Gradients & Colored Drop Shadows!
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-- Hey all! Today, we're checking out a couple new UI design trends I've spotted. First, I'm noticing the use of vibrant color gradients that go from one hue to another in various UI elements. Second, I'm noticing the use of large, soft drop shadows -- even colored drop shadows. I'm going to show you best practices and a few rules for integrating both of these trends into your projects!
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Gary Simon, of course, satchel.com.", 'start': 43.011, 'duration': 2.061}, {'end': 51.176, 'text': "So today we're going to take a look at a new UI design trend that I'm seeing becoming more and more popular.", 'start': 45.092, 'duration': 6.084}, {'end': 58.34, 'text': "And it's basically, it's diverging a little bit from the minimalistic flat design trend that we've been in for a real long time.", 'start': 51.336, 'duration': 7.004}, {'end': 62.023, 'text': "And I took some of these examples and I'm gonna show you what I'm talking about.", 'start': 58.821, 'duration': 3.202}, {'end': 70.388, 'text': "So here's one example that I'm talking about, and we've seen these vibrant UI designs quite a bit, but we're seeing the use of gradients quite a bit,", 'start': 62.483, 'duration': 7.905}, {'end': 73.19, 'text': 'even in UI elements such as this call to action button.', 'start': 70.388, 'duration': 2.802}, {'end': 76.012, 'text': "There's also an example right here.", 'start': 73.931, 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