Ever since the very first website was published back in 1991, web development practices have evolved from text-and-hyperlink-only web pages to a modern blend of images, audio, video, and intelligence. With the birth of Web 2.0, websites served more than just information – they began serving experiences – making selling almost a secondary feature. Inching towards the closing of this decade, we have seen a complete transformation of the technological landscape. Mobile devices took over the world by storm and the introduction of virtual reality, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence broadened our possibilities.

The degree of creative freedom that each new technological advancement provides to web designers and developers is like a breath of fresh air when there’s no limit to imagination. We have witnessed the designs maturing into a sophisticated and liberal flow of fonts, illustrations, color schemes with lesser attention towards grids and symmetry. The cutting-edge competition in both business and technology demands companies stay at the top of the game, forcing websites to become smarter. Few of the trends we saw in 2018 were artificial intelligence, chatbots, voice search, and responsive pages. Here are 6 upcoming trends to look out for which will broadly dominate the outcomes in 2019.

There are Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) in the market which cater to multiple industries and their privacy needs based on the use case. But the finance industry has to deal with some standard contracts and trades which are usual in nature and have pre-defined economic attributes. In order to have least turn-around time and DLT implementation Corda has designed an architecture specific to financial agreements and manage financial assets. This would allow global adoption across the financial industry and thereby end up creating industry technology standards for DLT.

Corda began as a single global ledger but when the transaction involves a small subgroup of parties, corda tries to keep the relevant data purely within the subgroup. Corda is a permissioned blockchain which gives the control of government to the organizations participating in the transaction. Corda, designed specifically for the finance industry tackles the issues of privacy and scalability but reaching a consensus on the participants involved in the transaction level and not inside the distributed ledger level making it better suited for the financial industry. Corda is mostly inclined towards handling complex transactions in addition to restricting access to highly sensitive data

It’s 2018 and with every passing year, technological innovations are becoming shifting from sci-fi to tools of our everyday lives. One such trend taking the world by storm is voice search.  With the rise in smartphones, the volume of the searches has also gone up. The searches vary from weather updates, daily news, locations to particular information on any subject. Voice searches have taken the SEO landscape to a whole new level.

According to Google, 20% of voice searches are done on its mobile app and Android devices. According to comScore, by 2020, 50% of searches will be in voice. Whether it is Siri, Alexa or Cortana people are relying more on voice searches due to their accuracy. More than 55% of adults and 41% of teens carry out voice searches on a daily basis. Surveys reveal that by 2020, voice search will dominate all the search mediums by 50%.