Designing Voice Interactions — A Modern Day Art
Only programming is not good enough, be an artist!
As we see the rise of Alexa & Google Home, as programmers, we need to think like artists when designing voice interactions. For most of the developers, coming from if & else conditional programming background, this is no less than a nightmare. Throughout this article, let’s try to explore how to master this art. As quoted in Google’s Conversation Design Guide the goal is to help you —
- Craft conversations that are natural and intuitive for users
- Scale your conversations across all devices to help users wherever they are
There are various steps we need to go through for designing a voice interaction —
Imagine and Sketch
Imagine the interactions users would like to have with the skill you are building. This imagination should go as wild as possible — the goods and the bads, the shorts and the longs, the useful and the useless interactions. Imagine all.
This is more like a painter who is looking at the canvas and imagining about the sketch he is about to…
