Ben Bate looks at five icon design trends expected to make their mark in 2017, including complimentary color gradients, hand-drawn iconography and greater depth through the use of overlapping, shadows and bright colors.

The Preston Bus Station, built in 1969 in Lancashire, England, is known for its Brutalist architecture. Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Designers are choosing to stand out from purely crafted, highly stylized aesthetics by adopting brutalism, a style loosely defined by a wide range of plain sites, visually unappealing elements and giant clusters of color, text and links. "Brutalism reminds us that more isn't always better -- especially on the web," Aja Romano writes.