This is how you play your best cards while designing for the web

Aren’t these among some sites/apps that you use every day?

Notice any visible patterns? Of course there is.All of them use cards for organizing their content. So what is it about cards that make them so ubiquitous around the web world? Let’s find out.

What are cards?

Cards are those little rectangular texts inclusive of high quality images and texts as descriptors. Cards have been popularized by image sharing platform Pinterest.

They have been highly successful in web designing alongside concepts like responsive web designing, so much so that they are mostly the obvious choice when one is meaning to walk the thin line between aesthetics and usability.

Why are cards so popular?

Cards apparently came to the forefront of web design when web giants Facebook and Twitter adapted it for their web as well as application format. What cards bring to your content is the balance of uniqueness and consistency. Each card is unique in its own right, but integrates seamlessly with the interface with suggestion of one primary action – the urge to click and see more. The most popular way of using cards in websites is the container style of designing. Facebook and Twitter both use that. The Guardian is an excellent example of it as well. Read their excellent piece of container style cards, where they talk about containers as group of cards stacked together. Also, the reduction of screen sizes has propelled this form of designing even more, to maintain the size of the content.

What’s in the cards for cards?

The Next Web and other reliable sources predict the future of card design to be mostly in Material Design. Google defines Material Design cards as “a piece of paper with unique related data that serves as an entry point to more detailed information. For example, a card could contain a photo, text, and a link about a single subject.” It’s the inevitable evolution I guess, since the concept of cards stems from tangible ones that were pieces of communication, long before their digital counterparts came into being.

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