Tech predictions for 2026 and beyond
For much of the world, technology has become so intertwined with our day-to-day lives that it influences everything.
For much of the world, technology has become so intertwined with our day-to-day lives that it influences everything.
Your competitors aren’t building perfect code either. If you spend 6 months building the theoretically perfect architecture, they’ll ship something “good enough” in 2 months and eat your lunch. You’ll have beautiful code that nobody uses.
What started as admiration quickly turned into motivation. Around 2018-2019, Nixtio began publishing their work almost daily, and the consistency paid off. Today, they credit Dribbble with opening the door to global visibility, meaningful client relationships, and creative growth.
It was a sharp reminder of something every CIO and CTO already knows but sometimes underestimates: your Web Application Architecture is not just a technical foundation, it is the backbone of your business.
Gemini 3 is the latest state-of-the-art LLM from Google. It is not just an incremental update it’s a radical shift toward an agentic-first experience. The model is optimized for multimodality and long-horizon planning. In other words, it doesn’t just answer prompts better; it can think, plan, and act more autonomously across different modalities.
Users form impressions in milliseconds — way before their brain can think logically. Your design sets the mood, sure. But their cultural memory? That’s what controls the reaction.
CAPTCHAs were meant to keep bots out, but too often, they lock people with disabilities out, too. From image classification to click-based tests, many “human checks” are anything but inclusive. There’s no universal solution, but understanding real user needs is where accessibility truly starts.
We think of these as post-category brands – products whose purpose aligns with a familiar category, but whose materials or methods have moved beyond the conventions that once defined it.
At Figma, we believe AI’s role is to help teams explore and imagine more. Every new model we bring to our platform gets evaluated through the same lens: Does it implement your designs with accurate fidelity? Does it take more of the busywork off your plate? Will it expand your team’s creative possibilities?
What It Is: New Relic combines Real User Monitoring (RUM), Application Performance Monitoring (APM), and infrastructure observability in one unified platform. Whether you’re tracking a JavaScript error originating from a slow backend API or monitoring Core Web Vitals across thousands of sessions, New Relic connects frontend performance to backend context in real time.