Instead of being raised quickly, prominence and digital design remains quite a trendy field to focus on.
Often there comes a new user interface that retains the excitement among people. For sure, this statement might be disagreed by a front-end who struggles hard to make a button work as it’s supposed to do, but overall there’s an obvious feeling of conspiracy around the work delivered by top designers and designing firms.
In the past few years, it has gradually become more noticeable that the number of screens with which designs should interact and the user numbers are simply going to rise. Furthermore, the growth looks to be exponential in the upcoming years. More technologies are going to be introduced for which a designer must be ready.
Here are some of the top reasons that are making designers excited for 2016.
#1: Tools, tools, and tools
Applications, tools, and software are turning our life much easier. Making use of tools in your designing work can minimize your efforts and time, and thus maximize your proclivity and productivity. Here’s a list of some tools that are going to help you incredibly:
- Muse
- Sketch
- Affinity Designer
- Draw.io
- UXPin
#2: Anticipatory design
This design is turning out to be one of the most exciting and attention-grabbing new ideas on the UX horizon. These are the designs that will remove choices so as to provide more convenience.
Instead of offering lots of options and freedom of movement, it’s believed that designers must deliver some kind of anticipatory solutions to user problems —that is removing decision fatigue completely by cutting down the decisions.
#3: Home automation
Although, home automation is quite big, but in the upcoming years, it’s going to be bigger.
Today, there are lots of items available in the market connected to the Internet of Things (IoTs), including—
- Dishwashers
- HVAC units
- Lighting
- Flood sensors
- Security systems
- Smoke detectors
- Garage door openers
- Media players
These items are connected to cloud-based computing systems which can be easily controlled according to choices, whims, and routines.
#4: Big data integration
Big data integration is for the home automation.
A large amount of data people built by simply interacting with several interface is now easily accessible for scrutiny by individuals with the insights to gather, collate and examine it.
Big data are extremely helpful for knowing the user’s need, requirements, choices, desires and common problems. In a nutshell, it can be properly used to build a better design for every product, service or web offering.
Integrating big data can help in enhancing your designs.
#5: Trend of remote work
Now you can do and finish up all your work from the comfort of your own home. Everyone likes work from home, and there are several studies that have shown the below facts:
- Work from home can boost productivity by 40%.
- 80% employees believe remote work as a great benefit.
- 95% polled that remote work can make a significant impact on employee retention.
- Remote workers are willing to work even when sick.
Remote work can greatly reduce stress, boost productivity and improve job satisfaction. It will help you put your job as a great designer in a holistic perspective.