In today’s lecture, we looked into the future of interaction design, including designs that use wearables, immersive interfaces and AI.
We delved into all possible ways that UX design may evolve over the next few years, and the main ones that stood out to me were augmented reality, the utilisation of AI to create fully personalised UI for each user and the early stages of gesture-controlled technology.
While researching, I found this article on the future of UX by Sarah Gibbons and Kate Moran.
This article covers the effects of AI and its effects on how UX designers work and job opportunities.
According to the article, UX job opportunities in 2023 dropped to 70% from their 2021 levels; however, they may be rising in the future. This drop in opportunities has made Ux designers try to rebrand or redefine their job titles, calling themselves insight researchers or experience designers due to the recent interest from brands in customer experience.
However, the article proceeds to remind us that this happened before in the early 2000’s with companies looking to save money and not deeming UX a necessity and UX rebranding itself from “usability” to user experience, etc.
Overall, what I mainly took away from this lecture is that the UX field is ever-changing; the way UX designers do their job, or even just define it, has changed many times in the field’s short existence.
At first, hearing the changes approaching filled me with a bit of panic, but after doing further research into new technologies and reading a few articles on the changes in the industry, I started to feel a bit more inspired about what I could end up designing in the future.