Last year, in honor of long-time Drupal contributor Aaron Winborn, Community Working Group, with the support of the Drupal Association launched the Aaron Winborn Award.
The authoring experience improvements we made in Drupal 8 appear to be well-received, but that doesn't mean we are done. With semantic versioning in Drupal 8, we can now make more UX changes in follow-up releases of Drupal 8. So now is a good time to start moving Drupal's user experience forward.
With RESTful web services in Drupal 8 core, Drupal can function as an API-first back end serving browser applications, native applications on mobile devices, and much more.