How to get started in Conversational AI

This question comes up all the time, and that’s great! So many people are discovering conversation design, and so many of them come from different backgrounds. We want to give you some helpers to get started. Before we do that, it’s worth pointing out a few things. Conversational AI has the potential to help everyone, […]

Balancing AI and Human Insight

Unless you’ve been orbiting in a space station with no Wi-Fi you’ll know that there’s a lot of hype around LLMs such as ChatGPT. However, what everyone craves are best practices for how to use them (and not another ‘here’s 1000 ChatGPT prompts to try before you die’ list on our LinkedIn feed). In the […]

The Complete AI automation process: A VUX World framework

In a previous post, I argued that role playing conversations is an ineffective way of scoping the requirements for a conversational AI use case, or for your first draft design. I realised that, while role play isn’t ideal, there are a shed load more decisions and activities that need to occur before you even think […]

ChatGPT’s ‘strategies for success’ look familiar to us!

When Open AI released their ‘Six strategies for getting better results’ in Dec 2023, anyone who has worked in conversational AI must have thought oh, that looks familiar! The blog showed various techniques for working with ChatGPT. So many of the techniques are similar to the things conversation designers and programmers from the CAI industry […]

The end of role play in conversation design?

There’s a common practice in conversation design, where a design team will role play a conversation with the intention of identifying common conversational patterns, and distilling that down into an ideal ‘flow’ or ‘happy path’. You’d then use this as your first-pass design and iterate from there. Is this practice still relevant today? Honestly, I […]