This document summarizes a web designer's predictions for 2011. It discusses that Flash usage dropped significantly as developers chose jQuery instead. Print media was transitioning to being web-based as tablet usage increased. Hardware-accelerated browsers were downsizing due to Amazon introducing cloud acceleration to minimize processing power needs. Television was integrating more with the internet through on-demand, live streaming, and social media integration, though it would not be a good year for web TV. Location-based services were predicted to provide more location-based reminders.

1. A REVIEW OF A
WEB DESIGNER’S
2011 PREDICTIONS

2. Contents
Predictions of 2011
1.Flash-dropped
2.Print media
-turning web based
3.Hardware-accelerated browsers
-downsizing and downfalls
4.Television
-not a good year with web tv
5.Location-based services
-reminders based on location

3. Print Media
● Print Media continues to stay strong.
● For example, The Times and the ipad-only Project
Magazine are doing well.

4. Print Media
● Future for traditional print-based media companies
moving onto the Web: Tablet Market!
● iOS5 developed Newsstand feature that targeted popular
magazines and print newspapers.

5. Print Media
● What is the future for traditional print-based media
companies moving onto the Web?
-heavily focused on tablet market
● People continue using smartphones and tablets
instead of newspapers as well as magazines.
● Americans spent:
-1+ hour / day on mobile devices
-44 min / day on newspapers and magazines.

6. Flash
● Usage dropped significantly within the last
year
● Developers are choosing to work with
JQuery instead
● It is a proprietary product, a disadvantage
to JQuery's open source

7. Flash
● HTML5 and JavaScript are taking over
Flash's place for interactive features on
websites
● Adobe, its program developer, ceased the
use of Flash in mobile devices
● Initially, it was created for the use of
desktop internet browsing

8. Flash
● Ceasing the development of the Flash
Player for mobile web results in the overall
elimination of Flash from all mobile
devices
● At this point, any new web projects should
avoid using Flash at all

9. Evolution of TV
2011 Predictions

10. An increasing
Integration
of TV and
Internet

11. Internet Television
On-Demand ● Many popular sites allow users to
watch the latest shows, movies,
and more online at any time.
Many of them for FREE.
Live Coverage ● Online coverage, like the British
Royal Wedding and UFC fights,
are broadcasted LIVE through
websites like youtube and hulu.
Social Media ● TV shows incourage viewers to
Usage write in their thoughts on social
media outlets such as Twitter.
Apple TV ● Control TV anywhere anytime.
From your television set to your
smart phone, virtually eliminating
the remote control.

12. HARDWARE-ACCELERATED BROWSERS
Little known secret: Most web browsers run what is
known as hardware acceleration somewhere in the
background.
The idea is to use something within the hardware to
speed up the browser. But, in 2011 Amazon came up
with a better idea: Cloud Acceleration.

13. For example...
In an attempt to minimize processing power of
and to keep it small, sleek and sexy all of the hard
work -- such as rendering web pages and Javascript --
was offloaded to GOD, HIMSELF!!
I kid.

14. There is one catch, however...
Amazon's cloud acceleration isn't that fast...
But, only because there isn't enough web
content cached away. Stay tuned in 2012.

17. Conclusion

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