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Designing effective voice interactions - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial
From the course: Developing Skills for AWS Alexa
Designing effective voice interactions
- [Instructor] So what does it take to craft an effective voice interaction? Voice interfaces are very different from traditional user interfaces. Graphical user interfaces have been around for decades, and as a result, there are decades of time-tested principles that govern and guide quality user interactions. As a GUI designer, you're often thinking about visual readability and feedback. Things like animation go a long way toward helping create in your user's mind a mental model of how the interaction is constructed so they never feel lost or disoriented. Touch interfaces are able to take many of the lessons from the long history of GUI design and tweak them for the more tactile but often less precise inputs of human fingertips. Buttons become larger, gestures like swipes and pinches take on a prominent role. And, when paired with highly responsive animations, such as a page turn or a map zoom, gesture interactions make…
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