How designers worked in 2015

Over 1 000 designs are uploaded into Avocode every day. We've put them into a perspective.

LET'S TAKE A LOOK

Summary

Dive into the pool of our analysis

Every design was analyzed anonymously and not a single pixel was compromised.

401,405

Designs

7,063,988

Layers

996,046,367,000

Pixels

Design tools

Photoshop vs. Sketch: the battle goes on

Sketch was closing up on Photoshop. It seems like somebody's got competition.

Photoshop

57%

Sketch

43%

What side are you on? Photoshop / Sketch

Design tools by countries

Do designers around the world fancy Photoshop or Sketch?

Sketch is has not yet reached to every corner of the world, but it’s getting there.

What tool dominates in your country? Photoshop / Sketch

layer styles

Layers under the microscope

It seems that last year was all about staying in shape and small talk.

44% Vectors

27% Text

22% Groups

7% Bitmaps

Layer effects

What styling was in fashion?

Watch out: what made you glow last year might put you out of the frame in 2016.

Solid fill

Stroke

Drop shadow

Gradient fill

Inner shadow

Outer glow

What style was flying last year? Let the world know

Fonts

What was the world's perfect type?

Open and simple. Going with serif online seems more and more grotesque.

And what's your perfect type? Let the world know

paragraph style

Most things were told from the left side

When it starts from the left, it's easy to look at. Well, considering latin aphabet it is.

72% Left

"Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

23% Center

"Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

5% Right

"Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

Corner radius

Rounded beats squared

The round up is clear: last year “cutting-edge” was just a buzzword.

89%

ROUNDED BUTTON

vs.

11%

SQUARED BUTTON

11%

What type of button do you think is more likely to be clicked at? Rounded / Squared

Stroke Align

Where do we draw the line?

Once the border was set, most people have marked it from the outside or the inside.

55%

43%

2%

colors

What's the true color of 2015?

Frankly, it was black, white and other 50 shades of grey which dominated - well not just in UI design last year. We hope you'll excuse us that we got rid of it in our graph.

Versioning

Does every designer still name designs like this?

2.5% of designers still believe that when you say “final” it really means final.

2.5%

Want to confess that you still version like this? Make a confession

THIS IS THE END

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