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Hello.
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The Age of the
Push & Reply
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Graphic User Interfaces (GUIs)
may no longer be necessary
but that doesn’t mean they’ll go away
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Unbundling is rising rapidly
it’s not a play to own your device home screen,
it’s to own your convenience.
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Contextual Experiences
User Experiences, and by proxy content engagement, that’s
completely reliant on context.
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Preferences, Context,
& Convenience
The heart of contextual experiences
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Threading
It keeps you on the line, and on the hook
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Threading is
conversational
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The transition won’t be easy
and it will happen fast
once people see the value, they go in head-first.
We’re getting very close.
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Any task that can be automated,
will be automated.
But should they all be?
we’re being told what we want and need based on our
preferences and context in order to provide convenience
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Not all interactions should be
automated
there’s always going to be joy in some
tasks that take time or even waste it
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Text & Voice are the
UI of the future
pixels will no longer be the driving force
behind user experiences, and soon
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Messaging is the Future
of Interaction
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Messaging as a platform
messaging isn’t just a thing you do, it’s an ecosystem in
which things are done for you
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The voice behind messaging
is critical
audience acceptance, and delight, with the writing for
messaging apps and their context will replace acceptance
and delight with GUI design
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The future of the interface
may be no interface
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Headless UI & Digital
Assistants
ecosystems won’t dictate tone anymore,
context and preferences will
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Siri
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Google Home
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Microsoft Cortana
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Conversational UI &
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“Headless” will have
safety nets for quite
some time
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Conversational UIs
reduce friction
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Conversational
Interface Design
so how do we “design” for conversation with little to no
control over the UI?
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Don’t pretend to be human
if it’s a bot, let them know it’s a bot
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Keep it simple
don’t make it meander, it’s not a chat, it’s a conversation,
there’s a difference
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Stick with call and response
keep it threaded and keep it in context
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Call for backup
when it makes sense
teach bots to get a human on the line when it’s best
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Be precise
keep the inputs (the ask) to a minimum and don’t make
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Never work without a net
allow users to ask to talk to a person and don’t block them
if they ask that at the start
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Put up rails
people don’t want to guess the secret password or rub the
lamp, make the input clear
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Be consistent
people don’t want to guess the secret password or rub the
lamp, make the input clear
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Overcoming Voice
Frustration
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Notifications &
Service Workers
being helpfully intrusive
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What’s Next
where do we go from here?
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Q&A
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