Robot Renaissance
As robots’ utility moves into the home and the workplace, they adopt more human-like interfaces and in some cases, micro-personalities.
Trend Category: Technology & Design
Heroic Design
Design is shaping the way we plan our cities, homes, and futures, and inspiring nuanced, sometimes unexpectedly heroic experiments from architects, urban planners, industrial engineers and tech gurus alike.
Data Overflow
Volumes of both personal and corporate-owned data are increasing at an exponential rate, creating pressure to turn that data into tools that serve as both practical and ethical instead of disconnected data points.
Engineered Addiction
Thanks to our increasing understanding of the behavioral science behind the formation of habits, marketers, designers, and engineers are creating products and services that are as addictive as possible.
Privacy Paranoia
Data breaches and an increasing focus on the many ways our behavior is now tracked on and offline is leading to a new global sense of paranoia about what governments and brands know about us, and how they might use this so-called “big data” in illicit ways.
Microdesign
The increasingly visual way that we experience and consume the world around us is creating a demand for information presented through efficient design and imagery.
Overquantified Life
Big data is offering more ways to quantify the world around us, but brands must be careful not to accumulate more data than they know what to do with.
Friend-Sourced Travel
Thinking small is a new competitive advantage, as slight changes to features or benefits are creating some of the biggest impacts on value.
Tagging Reality
People are making better use of physical objects to unlock virtual interactive content.
Measuring Life
Tracking tools and wearables offer personalized data to monitor and measure daily activities.
