[A post from O'Reilly's InsideRIA](http://www.insideria.com/2008/12/rias-of-christmas-future-ux-tr.html) asked 10 Usability (or UX - User eXperience) professionals where they see trends in UX headed.
Some keywords:
* data visualization and data exploration
* Consistent user experiences across multiple devices
* technologies beyond the browser
* 3D
* Temporal Informatics (for e.g. life-streaming services/Twitter)
* We're going to stop saying "RIA" soon. Every "A" will have internet technology, and hopefully most will be rich.
* the "Internet" piece of RIAs is going to be a commodity.
* "Expect users to work with Flex RIAs to explore large data sets in the manner they typically do with desktop apps like Excel, SAS and SPSS"
* Geospatial world
* digital immersion
* our solutions to problems have the potential to be much less confined to a screen or a box than we imagined
I've never heard many terms above. But they are good starting point for capturing the whole picture of UX industry in the next few years.