Technology is not going anywhere; on the contrary, it is ushering in the future faster than we ever imagined. Like the management expert Peter Drucker said, "The best way to predict the future is to create it" ( https://www.drucker.institute/thedx/joes-journal-on-creating-the-future/). Any new software is in the future. Now that we have the skills to create it, we should consider what our users really need from the future. We are always hurtling toward an undefined future destination; therefore, we might as well use the skills we have been discussing in this book to direct our trajectory and usher in a world of software that is designed by HCI designers and is more human-centered, with the ability to adapt to the new needs our users will have in the future.
Let's conclude our discussion by covering the future of software systems in six trajectories:
The six trajectories are as follows:
- Education software systems
- Collaboration software...