top trends in user experience
2016

Get Innovative with Videos

One of the well-known ways to create an intriguing User Experience is to make use of videos. Usage of videos gets the visitors engaged quickly. However, videos have been a part and parcel of User Experience for over a decade now. It is crucial as to how to make use of videos in the changing trend!

To make videos exciting, it is important to take things beyond interviews, how-to or product demo videos. Introduction of background videos has had a great impact on users. With video backgrounds, the video becomes a part of User Experience providing the designer with better and engaging ways to communicate with the user.

Screen Is Not the Only Focus Anymore

Just a couple of years back, User Experience was mainly based on the screens. May it be desktops, laptops, tablets or smart phones, screens were the only way for users to get connected and interact. Today, technological advances; such as virtual reality, wearable technology and augmented reality, have rattled the conventional approach of UX designs.

The need for a fluid responsive design has cropped up with these technological advances. Responsive designs provide smoother User Experience, irrespective of the platform used. Thanks to various themes available through CMS such as WordPress, Drupal, and Adobe; development of responsive designs, even for the least experienced designers and developers, have become easy now.

AI – Key to interactive future

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) blends itself among various products, the world is coming in terms with the reality that AI is the most sought after thing right now. With Apple’s ‘Viv’, Google’s ‘Google Now’ and many other AIs at our doorstep, designers realize that they need to study the human behaviour keenly if they want to provide the right choices for their users.

With Artificial Intelligence, comes interactive designs that are less about responding to a user’s request, but more about delivering the needs they haven’t expressed yet! As the line separating Artificial Intelligence and natural life continues to diminish, designers need to create things that feel and act real resulting in smarter objects and environments.

With access to multiple AIs, these intelligent assistants need to be ‘helpful’ to one another. As individual AI companies fail to cooperate with one another in this competitive world, it’s up to the designers to deal with this and create designs that ease the heated relationship between various AIs in the near future.