The promise of conversational UI – your users already know how to talk to another human, now they can do just that with your product. As a designer, you have many different choices to consider in delivering conversational experiences to your customers – whether it’s through virtual assistants, chat UI or chatbots on messaging platforms.
Come join this workshop where we’ll share our learnings and do some hands-on exercises together to design conversational experiences.
In this workshop we’ll cover:
– Fundamentals of CUI & determining what’s right for your product
– Discussion on ingredients of CUI experiences
– Identifying features and prototyping CUI
– Multisensory CUI & emerging design patterns
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Want to catch butterflies to earn discounts? Now you can with your iphone. Mobile Art Lab in Japan has developed a new iPhone App, iButterfly, that lets you catch virtual butterflies and turn them in for valuable offers. The application uses augmented reality to take video feed from your phone’s camera and superimposes virtual images — in this case butterflies. Users can travel all around Japan and see a wide variety of ‘butterfly species’, collect them in virtual albums, trade them with friends (via Bluetooth), or exchange them for commercial gifts. A quick swipe of the phone and the insect is caught. Restaurants or stores can make promotional offers through the iButterfly system. iButterly App is a fun and smart advertising tool disguised as a game!
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Apple’s Siri and Google Now have ignited consumers’ interest in voice user interfaces (VUI) by delivering valuable and delightful customer experiences. Innovative companies can leverage voice solutions to create a competitive advantage. But how do you drive the adoption of VUI in an organization with a long GUI-only history? In this session, hear about the ups and downs of one team evangelizing and adopting VUI to help your organization move forward faster.
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Apple’s Siri and Google Now have ignited consumers’ interest in voice user interface (VUI) by delivering valuable and delightful customer experiences. Innovative companies can leverage VUI solutions to create a competitive advantage. But how do you drive the adoption of VUI in an organization with a long GUI-only history? We’ll share the frameworks we used to evangelize VUI, offer key insights and design principles to help you start your own grassroots VUI movement, and provide best practices and a VUI brainstorming canvas
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Evangelizing and Designing Voice User Interface: Adopting VUI in a GUI world.
Download the material from today’s talk at IXDA 2014. Evangelizing and designing voice user interface in an organization with a long GUI-only history.
Apple’s Siri and Google Now have ignited consumers’ interest in voice user interface (VUI) by delivering valuable and delightful customer experiences. Innovative companies can leverage VUI solutions to create a competitive advantage. But how do you drive the adoption of VUI in an organization with a long GUI-only history? We’ll share the frameworks we used to evangelize VUI, offer key insights and design principles to help you start your own grassroots VUI movement, and provide best practices and a VUI brainstorming canvas.
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