Neumorphic Design Concept
NEUMORPHISM or NEUMORPH or SOFT UI whatever you call, is one of the latest DESIGN TREND in market. The taste for design changes from time to time, there can be multiple rationale behind this shift but we have witnessed it, yes we have. Try remembering the era before, flat designs took over the market.
At present the Developers, designers and UI/UX specialists are debating on the topic of aesthetics, usability and particularly the design trends. According to Designers, Neumorph are the successor of “SKEUMORPH” which lasted till 2013 by the iOS, after which a verified formula of “FLAT DESIGN” took over the market. It is high time for us to get acquainted by knowing more about it, also to prefer using in your Mock-ups and presentations, whichever way suits you for an obvious reason of its new appearance and the visual impact it creates, it is definitely trending and has the appearance which we commonly known as the X-Factor into it.
Check out the latest guidelines issued by Google on material design, this is something which will continue to aspire designers across the industry.
Basically, Neumorphism is a combined effect of the Flat UI with old Skeuomorphism principles. Its aesthetic is marked by minimal and real looking UI and hence it drives its name.
List of criteria while creating Neumorph design
a. Generally applied to action and display points in the designs like buttons (toggle, search), bars, text areas, graphs and charts.
b. The foreground color must be similar to background color
c. Do not choose the background color completely white and black
d. It has a set of shadows — one light and other dark
Neumorphism in practice
As said earlier in the criteria to design a Neumorph design, while keeping that in mind let us see how does it work. We will take an example of a button. The main characteristic of any Neumorphism design is that it blends with its background.
Samples
Neumorphism Tutorial
there is a range of colors where these work absolutely well, i have selected one such lighter and dark color tone to represent my understandings. Refer the below images —
Google Play store application UI using Neumorphism technique
