Posted at: 12:50 PM by Marianna

As we are heading towards the end of 2009 a lot of practitioners in digital industry have started identifying some current & new trends that might be established in 2010. Here is a list of some exciting predictions:

Usability Predictions (view source by W Craig Tomlin @ctomlin)

· There will be a dramatic increase in the use of low cost web-based usability testing tools.

· True usability ROI will continue to elude usability practitioners.

· Use of remote moderated usability testing will increase by a factor of 10.

Design Trend Predictions (view source by Sneh Roy @LBOI)

· Much more type rich imagery online with the ease of font replacement now, especially with CSS3 around the corner. It's going to be all about spacing, type and uniqueness.

· Some sites will gear towards the magazine type of look with short concise articles, easy to read and absorb clean simple design with splash of bold colors to catch the eye.

· A lot more retro and vintage colors in design and in packaging design. Many consumer goods have been releasing limited edition products with their retro packaging, and since it is a successful way of marketing it won't be too long before other consumer goods start doing so as well. I also see the transition between print to web becoming a huge trend.

· Another step will be what is now being nicknamed Web3.0. It's all about automation. Web 2.0 is about customized, personalised content, but the next step is about automated and integrated content.

Other

· Mobile net will flourish: As we now have some great hardware, good packaging, balanced operating systems and an accepting public we can expect mobile Internet to take hold. Dot mobile sites will enable us to interact with our phones without a constant flurry of pinching and scrolling. Mobile e-commerce may not be too far behind. (view source by Adam Toren)

· 2010 will be The year of Platform Wars: netbooks, cell phones, pads, Cloud standards. Clouds will tend to support the consumer world (Picnik, Amazon), enterprises will continue to build out their own data centres, and Netbook sector growth rates continue to post very large numbers.

· News media that survive will move to the subscription model, in whole or in part, along age lines. (view source by Mark Anderson)

· Video: As already mentioned, IPTV continues to rise, but video as a whole will be a massive trend to watch through 2010.

· The real time web is going to be a big issue, especially in search. Lots of smaller technology companies have been quick to realise this, as often indicated through the likes of TechCrunch, and I imagine the better ones will fare extremely well during the course of the coming year. (view source by Jake Hird @Jake_Hird)

· Location, location, location: the new frontier in app dev is location-aware applications and services, for internal, asset and service management, and B2C.

· Which underpins a new wave of mobile services as smart phones become pervasive. Augmented Reality will begin to make a mark in the mobile space. Initial experiences in Europe are likely to be in augmented tourism next summer-where you point your phone at a building and it shows you the associated Wikipedia entry. (view source by James Governor @monkchips)

Here at Zabisco the New Year will find us busy with interesting projects as planning new mobile applications, forming user experiences for various sites, design challenges and launching websites that have been built this year.

Feel free to share your predictions for 2010 with us!

Labels: design, prediction, user experience, web