You probably didn\'t even notice 2016\'s biggest design trend independent.co.uk

Cast your mind back to 2015. It was a simpler time when continents were (more) united and 75% of women had ombre hair. Fast forward to the present and the ombre backlash has begun in the hair world, but there’s one area where you may not have noticed ombre’s ubiquity over the past 12 months: tech. As much as we may like to pick out one shade as the colour of the year, 2016 was actually all about ombre – the gradual blending of one colour into another.