"Open the pod bay doors, designer."

Voice interfaces are coming. Siri / Google Now / Cortana is just the start. What will this mean for apps? For designers? Which bits of our work on screen might be replaced?

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1. “OPEN THE POD BAY DOORS, DESIGNER.” @bensauer MOBILE UX LONDON 11/15
2. THE APPOCALYPSE!
3. VUI = Voice User Interface
4. DREAMCATCHER
5. DAN SAFFER “future-proof yourself by ensuring that the kind of work you do cannot be easily replicated by an algorithm”
7. Curious Rituals produced by The Near Future Laboratory
9. Curious Rituals produced by The Near Future Laboratory
11. VUI has no affordance; 
 no way to discover what it can do.
12. • Limited shared vocabulary • Poor skills / co-ordination • No capacity to learn • Never sure job will get done Using VUI is a bit like dealing with Manuel…
13. BILL BUXTON Everything is best for something and worst for something else. The trick is knowing what is what, for what, when, for whom, where, and most importantly, why.
14. VUI IS GETTING SERIOUS INVESTMENT
15. PLATO IV: TOUCH IN 1972!
16. UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING
17. The promise of VUI is to simplify complex interactions into directly expressed goals.
20. PROMISING VUI PRODUCTS
21. “Alexa, add glow in the dark toilet paper 
 to the shopping list.” • handsfree context • noise filtering + recognition • focussed feature set
25. SIRI + TOUCH REMOTE: MULTIMODAL
28. WHAT ARE THE ‘TILLERS’ IN MODERN UI?
29. WHERE’S THE CONNECTIVE TISSUE?
30. The price of a multifunctional touchscreen 
 is the volume of required input. VUI is an efficient shortcut.
31. BEYOND USE CASES
32. CONNECTIVE TISSUE
 IS COMING
35. UNIX: thousands of tiny bits of software in your pocket.
36. STEVE JOBS “Dropbox is a feature, not a product.”
37. DESIGNING VUI
38. Bouncer Assistant Gopher Secretary THE ROLES OF A VUI Stephen Gay & Susan Hura
39. VUI IS NO GOOD AT…
40. LARGE AMOUNTS OF INPUT
41. PRESENTING CHOICE
42. HESITATION
43. FUZZY TASKS
44. SECURITY/PRIVACY
45. NOISY ENVIRONMENTS
46. VUI OPPORTUNITIES
47. SEARCH RESULTS (PLATFORM)
48. SEARCH RESULTS (IN APP)
49. SIMPLE GOPHER TASKS
50. MULTIMODAL ROLE PLAY
51. CONTEXT
52. MARC WEISER “The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.”
53. Technology is not things, it is practise. therefore… Outcomes, not outputs.
54. I’m @bensauer.
 (as in ‘Jack Bauer’.) “AUDIENCE. thanks for listening.”