You must see Amelia’s 7 Design Principles

How do you ensure you’re on the right track in conversational AI? How do you ensure you’re not wasting time and resources on something that won’t help anyone? Many designers keep principles in mind while they work. Design principles are at best a great resource for aligning minds when people collaborate, and at worst a […]

Why should you consider conversation’s unwritten rules?

Human conversations don’t follow a map. Even if you try to plan your chat, things often go off-topic quickly. It doesn’t matter much. No matter what happens, humans are skilled at redirecting conversations and finding agreement on what they’re talking about.

A novel approach to designing bot personas

“There is no such thing as a voice user interface with no personality,” according to Voice User Interface Design, written by Michael H. Cohen, James P. Giangola and Jennifer Balogh in 2004.