2019 Year-End Perspectives 1/4

Whether you’re an ambitious developer or an aspiring entrepreneur, here are the top tech influencers you should follow.

From the tools we’ll use, to our processes, to the behaviors that will change the way we design — here’s a list of what to expect for User Experience (UX) Design in the next year.

NY consulting firm sparks & honey put out a 125-page report where they assert that “(b)y 2020, medical knowledge will double every 73 days.” The report predicts that data used from tracking and monitoring consumer data will provide precisely personalized products in specific markets.

Heads up, you’ll have to give up your email to access the full report.

Chances are you’ve already went through your personalized Spotify yearly chart and posted it on Instagram to compare your musical tastes with your friends. Here is Spotify’s global stats on how the world listened in 2019 with insights from the past decade in the mix.

The motherlode of year-end lists is actually a great resource for those traveling long distances for the holidays. It spans from across the web covering movies, tv shows, albums, books, poetry, and podcasts. New lists are added daily, so you’ll have plenty to scroll through and discover while you’re on the couch trying to decide what to consume.

As a refresher, Dictionary.com’s 2018 word was “misinformation.” This year’s word, existential, reflects an overall sense of global foreboding. Here’s a bonus list of Dictionary.com’s past decade of ‘Word of the Year’ - which in retrospect, is also ominous.

Already over 6 years old, the list compiled by the NY firm, sparks & honey (mentioned above), is an interesting look at future predictions from the past. Is this list prolific or has it aged like milk?

From predictions of Japan building a robotic base on the moon to self-driving cars to micro-chip brain implants - this list curled our lips with its emphatic 2014 optimism and ignorance of how much time the world would spend combatting disinformation and privacy regulations leading up to 2020.

Waxing nostalgic on reviewing these lists, it’s hard not to wonder where we have strayed from the predictions the World Economic Forum’s poll of Technology Pioneers published in 2014. Some of these we’re closing in on, but some are still a far shot away.