The UK Design Council has identified four key trends that will impact design, and provides links to more detailed resources. The areas are:
- Minituarization
- Digitization
- Smart Materials
- Pervasive Computing
The common theme of these areas is the potential to design products with greater capabilities, flexibility and functionality than every before.
Related, are emerging design issues:
- Sustainable design
- Social responsibility
- Service design
- Experience design
Succesful designers will need to appreciate and incorporate technological, social and other requirements as design plays a role in more areas of society.
