Smashing Mag curates their top web design trends, and gives us the first of a multi-part set with these 10 great examples. It's a well picked, high quality collection of screenshots as is typical of these guys. They never disappoint. Here's a snippet describing the list:
Web design trends for 2009: recent developments, new design elements and new graphic approaches. We also discuss situations in which these trends can be used and present some beautiful examples.
Their second set of trends is forthcoming.
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/01/14/web-design-trends-for-2009/