{"id":1952,"date":"2018-07-28T08:07:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T08:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adoxglobal.com\/blog\/?p=1952"},"modified":"2018-07-28T08:07:44","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T08:07:44","slug":"5-trends-for-the-future-of-web-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adoxglobal.com\/blog\/5-trends-for-the-future-of-web-development\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Trends for the Future of Web Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trend prediction is always difficult: seeing into the future of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adoxglobal.com\/services\/web-development-kerala\">Web Development<\/a> is no different. If you go back through digital trend forecasts of the past decade and you find many \u2018dead-certain\u2019 predictions that didn\u2019t pan out:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Facebook would collapse after termite activity by scores of micro social media platforms<\/li>\n<li>Apple TV would crush all in its path<\/li>\n<li>Google, Bing and \u2026 Wolfram Alpha would smash into each other in some sort of search titanomachia<\/li>\n<li>Printing would become obsolete and no new books, newspapers or paper-based advertising collateral would be required.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some of those might still come true, others are cringe-inducing. Look at widespread mobile internet. It was forecast many times over many years, and then it happened. Looking back, it seems so sudden now.<\/p>\n<p>With it, mobile internet brought many second-order changes in web development best-practice. Take responsive web design. When the web was desk-bound and 17 inches was considered a big monitor, web development and design companies didn\u2019t really push responsivity because it didn\u2019t really matter. Now people regularly use websites and services on screens ranging from the 1.5-inches on a smartwatch to the 110-inches of a pricey TV. Just before it started to matter the industry saw this need coming and did something about it.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re a business owner wanting to improve your web presence or starting a whole new venture and looking for platforms that\u2019ll stand the test of time, you\u2019ll want to know the direction things are going.<\/p>\n<p>At Hunted Hive, here are a few things we see coming and when.<\/p>\n<h4>1. Artificial intelligence<\/h4>\n<p>No, not Skynet or The Matrix, we are simply talking about computers that respond to their environment in a proactive way. We are already seeing it in software applications that can observe and optimise particular loops in their own performance.<\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s search and Apple\u2019s Siri both use natural language processing to teach themselves how people use language in order to improve their accuracy. In gaming, developers are building in dynamic systems where the game learns the player\u2019s techniques and changes itself to suit their behaviours. On the more prosaic matter of fraud detection on online commerce, just know there is usually no human case worker behind the warning emails you get.<\/p>\n<h4>2. Internet of things<\/h4>\n<p>Like AI, the internet of things (IoT) is another trend in the future of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adoxglobal.com\/services\/web-development-kerala\">Web Development<\/a> that has been a slow-burner that is now increasing in temperature. What IoT is really about is bringing connectivity to the everyday objects around us to enable us to know more about them and therefore get more utility from them. The reason this can now happen in a big way is cloud connectivity.<\/p>\n<p>You can already see IoT happening with exercise trackers. For example, the fitness trackers of navigation services giant Garmin can connect physical activity data to health optimisation platforms. Now, by also tracking biometrics, sleep cycles and nutrition, it can optimise how your body operates. It can even reveal food allergies by cross-referencing meal times and heart rate.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, cloud-connected cars already report performance and maintenance diagnostics back to service centres. Soon cars will also connect to the other vehicles around them. Imagine a car that can hit a pothole and then automatically warn all the vehicles following to get their shock absorbers ready for the bump.\n<\/p>\n<h4>3. The continuing rise of Python<\/h4>\n<p>The languages behind the software running all the cool new things already exist. In fact, they are already several software generations old. Python, which dates from 1991, is flexible, resilient and, crucially, a scalable high-level programming language that can make it all happen. <\/p>\n<p>Like the English language\u2019s role in international business, Python is becoming the lingua franca of web development. Like English, it\u2019s convenient, fast and adaptable.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook, NASA, Google, Youtube all use Python extensively. Further, it is great for AI, machine learning, API integration and rapid development &#8211; all trends of themselves. If Java is the dying star in your local web development and design company, then across the board, Python\u2019s is going interstellar. Check out our other post on 8 Reasons To Create Websites with Python for more resources on why it is growing quickly.<\/p>\n<h4>4. Websites that build themselves<\/h4>\n<p>In the early days of the web, every <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adoxglobal.com\/services\/ecommerse-web-development-services-kerala\">website<\/a> was custom made through HTML coding by hand. Later, as products like Dreamweaver and WordPress came along, the knowledge barrier for entry lowered. That barrier is about to vanish. CMS engines like WordPress are evolving to automatically create sales <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adoxglobal.com\/services\/responsive-web-development-kerala\">Websites<\/a> from plain text.<\/p>\n<p>Soon, all a business will have to do is fill in an online form and a few design questions and the software will build everything else. And when we say everything else, we\u2019re including ecommerce and even just-in-time manufacturing, supply and delivery chains. This is going to wipe out the proportion of the web development industry that works on the front-end side of a CMS.<\/p>\n<p>The more technologically skilled of those developers will migrate back to more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adoxglobal.com\/services\/responsive-web-development-kerala\">customised development<\/a> work, the more design skilled developers will migrate into consulting and working via service platforms, not unlike how graphic designers now work with 99 Designs.<\/p>\n<p>And, as always, a lowered bar for entry computes to a higher bar for best practice.<\/p>\n<h4>5. Passwords and PINs fade into the past<\/h4>\n<p>The flaws in online identity regimes are well known. Users find passwords easy to forget and, via rules like \u2018must be 8 characters and include a capital, two numbers and a punctuation mark\u2019, difficult to even think of. It\u2019s no surprise that, year on year, the number 1 most popular password is \u2018password\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>As more and more of civic, educational, political and economic life is mediated online, inherently compromised security is unsustainable. Advanced biometrics for identity establishment and online transactions are the answer. We\u2019re talking facial recognition, fingerprints and even the way you walk.<\/p>\n<p>It is already happening with phones that can only be unlocked by thumbprint, but did you know the GPS and accelerometer data your phone tracks is just as unique? Yes, your phone can \u2018feel\u2019 when someone else is carrying it.<\/p>\n<p>The economic ramifications of this are huge. In a world where your digital presence is unforgeable, your identity will be self-evident. When shopping online or offline you will not need to establish your identity or even get out your wallet\/phone. Just grab and go, letting the system settle the bill. Identity theft online will become all but impossible. Shoplifting IRL will, bizarrely, become a form of fraud rather than theft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trend prediction is always difficult: seeing into the future of Web Development is no different. 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