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Trend report 2027

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Five trends in digital products. And what they mean for your team.

PIXELBY TRENDLAB 2027
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Five trends

  1. 01Agents click
  2. 02Small closed rooms
  3. 03Slow apps
  4. 04Voice everywhere
  5. 05Self-explaining
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Trend 01 of 05

Agents
click
for you

The customer sends their AI ahead.

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Kurvly web shop, Q3 2026

38%

of orders were placed by an AI agent. No human saw the front page.

What.txt

The agent compares, chooses and pays. It reads your data. It never sees your design.

Do_this.txt

For product teams

Build for two users: the human and their agent.

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Trend 02: Small closed rooms

“We closed the open group. Now 40 people talk every day.”

Founder of Maskeklubben, 312 members

Signal

3 in 5

under 30 share most in groups of fewer than 50 people.

Do_this

Build for the room. Measure conversations per member.

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Calm pixel living room with one old computer and an hourglass on the screen

Trend 03

Slow
apps

Signal

The news app Ugeblad comes out once a week. Four times as many pay as last year.

For product teams

Measure whether people come back. Forget how long they stay.

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Share of searches by voice

8% 12% 19% 27% 38% 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027

Source: Lydmåleren, panel of 2,000 people. 2027 is an estimate.

Trend 04

Voice
everywhere

One in four searches is by voice. Mostly in the car and the kitchen.

For product teams

Write the flow as a conversation before you draw the screen.

Trend 05 / 08 of 10

Products that explain themselves

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  • Help center with 214 articles
  • Support replies after 2 days
  • A 9-minute intro video
Now.exe
  • Ask the screen: why did it cost that?
  • The answer is right where you are
  • No video. No waiting.

Signal

The banking app Kronen shows a “why” on every transaction. Support requests fell 46%.

For product teams

The explanation is part of the feature. Design them together.

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What will you do Monday?

01.txt

Agents

Run your checkout flow with an agent instead of a test user.

02.txt

Small rooms

Build one feature for groups under 50.

03.txt

Slow

Delete one notification. Measure whether people come back.

04.txt

Voice

Make the three most important tasks work without a screen.

05.txt

Explain

Write a short why next to every number.

Trends Notes The team
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