DEPT. Trends Forecast 2024
A 71-slide agency trends report that alternates dark and warm-cream editorial slides, runs a persistent section-nav across every page, and pairs oversized all-caps section headlines and serif pull-quotes with risograph-grain illustrations.
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DEPT. Trends Forecast 2024 cover

Introduction statement and body

Contents with five trend domains

Section divider 1 In Our AI Era

AI rise and public unease body

Sub-section divider 1.1 Generative AI's Evolution

Democratisation of GenAI body

Retention and experience body with DEPT/AI collage

Sub-section divider 1.2 Transparency With AI

Labeling builds trust body with AI image

Content Credentials body with photo and UI card

Sub-section divider 1.3 AI Is The Key To Your Friday Off

Two lenses on AI impact Venn diagram

69 percent stat over duotone eye photo

Sub-section divider 1.4 Offsetting AI

Data-centre water consumption body with ChatGPT card

Where The Internet Lives body with Google illustration

Sub-section divider 1.5 AI Becomes Privacy's Unlikely Defender

AI as privacy's best weapon (split image + stat block)

Responsible AI framework (browser screenshots + body)

Section 2 divider, Marketing gets personal

Personalisation gets real (vertical collage + body)

Sub-section 2.1 divider, Meet conversational commerce

Conversational commerce intro (Hyatt UI mockups + body)

Search is evolving (TikTok 3D collage + body)

Sub-section 2.2 divider, Welcome to the conceptual web era

Generative AI stack (AWS Bedrock diagram + body)

Unstructured data (Dior AI-generated cityscape + body)

Sub-section 2.3 divider, Gen Z is more nuanced than you think

Gen Z authenticity (green circles + stepped stat bars)

Gen Z product values (proportional circles + body)

Sub-section 2.4 divider, Searchers no longer give a cl*ck

Future of search (Gemini whale-song UI + body)

Conversational SERPs (Google SERP screenshot + body)

Section 3 divider, With tech and data the future is now

Reinvest in tech and data (yellow collage + body)

Spatial computing section divider

Spatial computing substance-over-style statement

VR in the paediatrician's office profile

Web3 is not dead section divider

NFT ownership stepped bar chart

Web3 regulation two-screenshot stack

Gamers and new-age tech section divider

Gaming market dual red-circle stats

Gaming as social space 3D-render and screenshots

Social media goes freemium section divider

Diversify platforms Elon duotone portrait

Every company is a data company section divider

Nearshoring tripled factory photo

Chip manufacturing render and orange column

People and the Planet chapter divider

Accessibility section divider

Supply-chain fragility factory photo

Accessibility statistics body slide

Impact chapter statement with riso illustration

4.1 Good design is accessible design section divider

96% accessibility stat in a giant circle

E-commerce accessibility stats and WCAG principles

4.2 Brand safety gets turned upside down section divider

80% brand-safety stat in a half-toned circle

Elon Musk duotone portrait with body copy

Brand safety illustrated character with body copy

4.3 A new chapter in mobility section divider

Mobility decline statement with cyclist photo

Mobility-as-a-Service market growth circles

4.4 Mitigating impact with innovation section divider

Brands strengthen society statement with stepped bar stat

ESG body copy with people-in-nature photo

Looking Ahead chapter recap in four columns

Closing remarks with contact and riso illustration

Trends Forecast 24 graphic back cover