Emerging Tech Trends 2016

Single Page Applications

  1. A overview of the technology/trend including its history and potential impact on our field.
  2. A single-page application (SPA) is a web application or web site that fits on a single web page with the goal of providing a more fluent user experience similar to a desktop application. In a SPA, either all necessary code HTML, JavaScript, and CSS is retrieved with a single page load, or the appropriate resources are dynamically loaded and added to the page as necessary, usually in response to user actions. The page does not reload at any point in the process, nor does control transfer to another page, although the location hash can be used to provide the perception and navigability of separate logical pages in the application.

  3. One or more examples of that technology in use.
  4. One or more examples of how to see, use or implement the trend/technology.
  5. either a paralax style like 88and90lex.com/residences or one that changes with user interaction such at vnstar.com.ua/en/

  6. Your overall opinion of the role this trend or technology may have on our industry.
  7. I feel this is a great idea for static/informational sites what have limited content. However I am not a fan of how long it takes to load the web page.

Vibrant Custom Illustrations and Iconography

  1. A overview of the technology/trend including its history and potential impact on our field.
  2. This trend is full of artistic and elegant ideas to make the webpage with little content "words" but full of imagery and graphics that portray the overall feeling and message of the web page.

  3. One or more examples of that technology in use.
  4. One or more examples of how to see, use or implement the trend/technology.
  5. Icon Fonts

  6. Your overall opinion of the role this trend or technology may have on our industry.
  7. For certain companies I would recomend this type of layout for, However I am not a fan of this type of design.

Interactive Immersion Experience

  1. A overview of the technology/trend including its history and potential impact on our field.
  2. This is a very interesting trend that allows the website to change and have effects either using transistions, animations, html canvas and API's This makes the website more appealing and interesting to the user.

  3. One or more examples of that technology in use.
  4. One or more examples of how to see, use or implement the trend/technology.
  5. Your overall opinion of the role this trend or technology may have on our industry.
  6. I really like making my buttons and images interactive, some simple things can bring a whole new feel and level to your website. I personally use some sort of animations and transistions on all my websites.