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UI/UX Design: The Future of UX
What UX will probably look like in the next ten years, what it means for you, and why you should care.
Overview
As we stare down the maw of the fast-approaching future, as UX designers we have to ask ourselves where it’s all going, and how it will impact us in our daily practices.
Today, we’ll explore what UX will probably look like in the next ten years, what it means for you, and why you should care.
The future of UX
If the last two decades are anything to go by, the next ten years is promising in terms of just how many advancements we can hope to see.
Bear in mind that in twenty years we went from VHS and casette tapes, blew right through CD’s and DVD’s to a point where almost all media can be transmitted via the internet without batting a lash.
This has gross implications on what comes next, and we need to take a good, hard look at it to see where we’ll probably stand in 2032.
AR/VR
In the next decade, the prevalence of cheap, widely-available AR and VR will become the norm as phones increase in processing power and become more efficient.
This will mean that most experiences will probably happen in AR and VR where and when possible, not just as a fad, but as a default for the lion’s share of businesses.
To clarify, this won’t all happen at once. It will be gradual, with companies offering AR & VR modes of popular apps to test the waters and see how people react to it.
Spurred on by the unending waves of coronavirus, companies will look for ways to give consumers a novel, reasonably realistic shopping experience that is bespoke, while delivering the goods that people are looking for.
We will more than likely see this manifest as AR/VR applications that focus on predictive commerce, and experiences that attempt to…
