In 2016, mobile app trends included apps serving as platforms for connecting supply and demand through dispatcher frameworks like Uber; cognitive design principles focused on human behavior and usability; and personalization driven by user context and IoT data from wearables and sensors. Backend trends emphasized scalability through concurrency, microservices, and fast/secure services compared to legacy systems. Overall, simplicity and usability remained important through following the KISS principle.

1. Mobile App Trends in 2016
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2. App as Platform

3. Dispatcher Framework
• Not only for ride (Uber)
• All kinds of supply ~
demand [middle man]
business models

4. “Flux” to Handle UI Update
Concurrency

5. Cognitive Design
• The psychology of design
• Human behaviour
• Design Thinking (empathy)
• Familiarity by design
• Responsive design
• New kinds of interactions
[keyboard-less, searchable]

6. Personalisation
User-context-driven
IoT
• Wearable
• Sensor
• Bigdata
Seamless to be personal
assistant
Realtime/streaming predictive
analytics with machine learning

7. Backend
• Concurrency -> scalability
• Microservices -> decoupled services
• Fast & secure -> legacy

8. Product as service that
face-to-faces with
complexity

9. Last but not least: KISS

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