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Automated Creation

Consumers move from curating to creating with art-encouraging resources

Implications - The younger generation is obsessed with avoiding the tedious professions that wreak havoc on their parents, resulting in a need to create. Many online resources and apps have been released as a result. This suits the desire to create, instead of simply curate, artistic content, accelerating the content creation abilities granted to consumers via Twitter and other micro-blogging sites.
Trend Themes
1. Crowdsourced Writing Apps - Technology that enables users to crowdsource “written” content presents an opportunity for a novel approach to content creation, combining macro quality supervision with micro-input from a crowd.
2. Simplified Website Publishing Platforms - Simplified website publishing platforms can offer significant cost savings to businesses and individuals seeking to create a website, bypassing the need for specialized development or design skills.
3. Collaborative Design Platforms - Collaborative design platforms such as FiftyThree's Mix democrative creativity and can help facilitate collaboration among creatives, and ensure that all stakeholders have input and are heard.
Industry Implications
1. Content Creation Platforms - With the ease of content creation, there is an opportunity for innovators to create enterprise applications that streamline the content creation process for companies in various industries.
2. Web Development Platforms - Simplified website publishing platforms such as Squarespace have disrupted the web development industry, which could lead to an emphasis on digital strategy and website experience design as a more valuable skill.
3. Music Production - Beat-making and music-making apps present opportunities in music production, allowing more people to benefit from synthesizer tools and democratized access to music-making.
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Simplified Website Publishing Platforms
Simplified Website Publishing Platforms
Make Your Own Beautiful Website On Squarespace
Brought to you by Squarespace The idea of creating your own website is exciting, but for those who don’t know how to code, or have a limited knowledge of web design, this can be a daunting... MORE
Music-Making Apps
Music-Making Apps
Humtap by Tamer Rashad Creates Full Compositions Through Hums and Taps
Humtap is a creative music-making app that is incredibly user friendly. Relying on people’s intuitive musical abilities, all it requires is a hummed tune or tapped beat in order to create an... MORE
Beat-Making Apps
Beat-Making Apps
Auxy for iPad Provides a Digital Mobile Space to Create Electronic Music
Auxy is one of the better beat-making apps currently on the market. Created to work with the iPad, it aims to replace spreadsheet music making in order to simplify the process and make it more fun.... MORE
Photo-Focused Journalism Apps
Photo-Focused Journalism Apps
The Onpublico App Lets You Instantly Go from Witness to Reporter
Those who spent four years in school studying journalism may be a bit peeved by the Onpublico app. The app is designed to make it easy for ordinary citizens to report the news they’re seeing... MORE
play_circle_filled Collaborative Design Platforms
Collaborative Design Platforms
FiftyThree's Mix is a Handy Co-Creation Platform for Designers
Renowned for its award-winning mobile design apps, studio FiftyThree’s Mix co-creation platform is a place for people to put their heads together and collaborate. The platform serves as a... MORE
play_circle_filled Social Reading Campaigns
Social Reading Campaigns
Empik's Literacy Campaign Gives Away Free Book Chapters on Instagram
While visual social media sites like Instagram are on the rise, reading is on the decline—so Poland’s largest retail bookseller, Empik, came up with a clever literacy campaign. Knowing that... MORE
Crowdsourced Writing Apps
Crowdsourced Writing Apps
The Coda for iPhone App Gets Rid of Writer’s Block By Asking Other
If your writing process is a constant influx of writer’s block coupled with slow writing, there is now an app that helps to cure your writer’s block called Coda for iPhone. When you run out of... MORE

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