If you're a web designer I think 2010 should be a good year for you. Why? Well besides the fact that working on the web continues to be a strong industry, I think there are three specific reasons.

Web Typography

This already has been predicted by others so nothing new here, but 2010 will be an exciting year for web typography as more and more typefaces become available via services like Typekit and exciting technology like the .webfont proposal.

If you haven't familiarized yourself with @font-face then there's no better time than right now. Jonathan Snook's article – Becoming a Font Embedding Master – is a good place to start.

Mobile Platforms

The iPhone has been around almost three years now, add to that Google's Android, the Kindle and other e-readers, the forthcoming Apple tablet and Microsoft's tablet and you begin to see that the personal computer has a lot of company.

The reason for the excitement in this case is because you can use “regular” HTML, CSS and JavaScript to produce highly functional and amazing products for these platforms. Well, at least for the iPhone and Android, see jQTouch to get a sense of what I'm talking about.

Innovation in these areas could set you far above the norm.

Web Design Blogging

I think we will see a lot more high-quality web design blogging in 2010 than in previous years. There are websites like Project 52, articles bemoaning the current state of link list dribble and plenty of other web designers declaring their desire to blog more in 2010.

There will be rewards for original thinking and creative writing in 2010. Plus with all the new technology (like HTML5 and CSS 3) becoming mainstream there will be that much more about which to write.

Happy New Year!