App Design

Do we see our thoughts? A great paradox in plain words, but an inevitable juxtaposition between everyday stimuli and the human thought…

Learn about designing apps for iOS.

Learn about designing apps for iOS.

Here’s a quick look at how we tackle UI and UX design problems in Discovr for iOS. One issue that’s been especially tricky was finding the best way to explain the gestures in the app. We’ve tried using several different ways of displaying ‘help’ information to solve this ...

Tooltips are powerful design patterns implemented to enhance the design experience by providing additional information precisely when users need it. Sometimes, however, tooltips are obtrusive, especially on mobile devices where available space is at a premium.

Amelia is the leading conversational AI system. Her superior natural language understanding and end-to-end learning are second-to-none among digital employees.

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Conversational AI enables virtual assistants and chatbots to resolve issues without human intervention. See why self-service transforms CX and EX.

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Conversations Agents have been around long enough for the public to know the difference between a cost-saving solution and a value-added customer-centric experience that makes everyday life easier. Businesses must implement chatbots that don't frustrate customers and increases your bottom line.

You just can’t differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans. —Dr. Lanning in I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov As a little twenty-first-century cocktail-party experiment, quote that line to someone, and observe whether it elicits hope or fear. Asimov understood the core terror of AI-human relations: replication, confusion, eventual domination, and chaos. What makes his […]

The key to humanizing technology is to make it more relatable, not more human.

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Facebook AI has made scientific progress in improving nuanced conversational skills, including consistency, specificity, and empathy.

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Many criticize gestural controls as being unintuitive and unnecessary. Despite this, widespread adoption is underway already, and the UI design world is burning the candle at both ends to develop solutions that are instinctively tactile. The challenges here are those of novelty. Even though gestural controls have been around since the early 1980s and have enjoyed a level of ubiquity since the early 2000s, designers are still in the beta-testing phase of making gestural controls intuitive for everyday use.

What gesture-based interactions reveal about a multimodal future

Lets talk about Graphical user interface(GUI). This is a form of user interface that for uses graphical icons and visual representations…

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” -Arthur C Clarke

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