--- title: Best UX Planet posts — January 2025 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted UX Planet posts from January 2025, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/sources/uxplanet/best-of/2025/01 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/sources/uxplanet/best-of/2025/01 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best UX Planet posts — January 2025 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted UX Planet posts from January 2025, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of UX Planet — January 2025 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/the-rise-and-fall-of-neumorphism-vkiulzspn "The Rise and Fall of Neumorphism") Article UX Planet · 2y The Rise and Fall of Neumorphism Neumorphism, a UI design trend that emerged in 2019-2020, aimed to create new, fresh aesthetics by combining elements of realism with minimalism. It featured shadows, highlights, and pseudo-3D depth to make UI elements feel embedded or extruded from the background. Despite its visual appeal, neumorphism had practical issues, including low contrast, poor usability, and compatibility problems with dark modes. Following its decline, new trends such as glassmorphism and skeuomorphism 2.0 (hyper-realism) are gaining traction, each bringing distinct visual styles and improvements. 103 3 2. 2 [](https://daily.dev/posts/10-game-changing-ui-ux-design-trends-to-watch-in-2025-mhau3ibmt "10 Game-Changing UI/UX Design Trends to Watch in 2025") Article UX Planet · 2y 10 Game-Changing UI/UX Design Trends to Watch in 2025 By 2025, several key UI/UX design trends will play crucial roles, including the rise of website builders offering advanced tools, the growing importance of AI in automating design processes, and the continued investment in AR and VR tools. Enhanced connectivity through technologies like 5G and satellite connections, silent authentication methods, and the necessity of dark mode are also highlighted. The article predicts that static websites will fade, Figma will dominate the market, and traditional aesthetics will largely hold unless major updates from giants like Apple or Android occur. 41 1 3. 3 [](https://daily.dev/posts/icons-as-fonts-why-google-and-apple-are-embracing-this-new-approach-ruyrcf0np "Icons as fonts: Why Google and Apple are embracing this new approach") Article UX Planet · 2y Icons as fonts: Why Google and Apple are embracing this new approach Google and Apple have introduced the use of fonts for delivering icons, which offers benefits like performance optimization, scalability, easier integration for developers, streamlined asset management, dynamic styling capabilities, and enhanced accessibility. While traditional methods using PNG or SVG files have their advantages, icon fonts provide a simplified and efficient approach for scalable and dynamic icon libraries. 14 6 [See all UX Planet archives](/sources/uxplanet/best-of) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/uxplanet/best-of/2025/01#page","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/uxplanet/best-of/2025/01","name":"Best UX Planet Posts — January 2025","description":"The most upvoted UX Planet posts from January 2025, curated by the daily.dev community.","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","url":"https://daily.dev"}},{"@type":"ItemList","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/uxplanet/best-of/2025/01#items","numberOfItems":3,"itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-rise-and-fall-of-neumorphism-vkiulzspn","name":"The Rise and Fall of Neumorphism"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/10-game-changing-ui-ux-design-trends-to-watch-in-2025-mhau3ibmt","name":"10 Game-Changing UI/UX Design Trends to Watch in 2025"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/icons-as-fonts-why-google-and-apple-are-embracing-this-new-approach-ruyrcf0np","name":"Icons as fonts: Why Google and Apple are embracing this new approach"}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Sources","item":"https://daily.dev/sources"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"UX Planet","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/uxplanet"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Best of","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/uxplanet/best-of"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"name":"January 2025"}]}]} ```