UX Brighton’s “UX and AI” conference (1st November 2024), covered a broad spectrum of perspectives on how AI is transforming user experience, design, and human relationships. A few common trends emerged from the discussions, revealing both opportunities and serious challenges AI poses to UX design.
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The Push UX Conference 2023, held from 19-20 October in Munich, Germany, was an engaging event packed with insightful talks, hands-on workshops, and breakout sessions. It brought together design professionals, product-minded innovators, and creative technologists.
Conversational vs traditional customer experiences.
I’ve been working on a project with Pat.ai/EC.ai for several months, and what those guys can do with linguistic understanding (and context) is pretty amazing.
Looking at a traditional customer experience in travel.
A traditional UI for example google’s multi-itinerary flight search form, has prescribed inputs
The customer enters data, select dates, and builds their itinerary. – comparing this to a dialogue with a travel agent the questions would be mostly the same. (“I’m interested in going to Singapore, I need to go via doha to attend a meeting but just for a day. Here’s my dates”)
Continue reading “Conversational vs traditional customer experiences.”Patterns at PatternsDay conference.
When I heard that Jeremy Keith was creating a conference about patterns I jumped at the chance to understand how companies were managing their libraries.
What is consumer-centric and why does it matter?
If you google Consumer-Centric this you get this;
Customer centric is a way of doing business with your customer in a way that provides a positive customer experience before and after the sale in order to drive repeat business, customer loyalty and profits. And a customer-centric company is more than a company that offers good service.
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Every Agile team should have a UX expert.
Until 1-2 years ago, my specifications were wordy, with wireframes but what I’ve observed is that you can’t assume customers will read a 100+ page document and fully engage with it.
What customers can relate to, are visual prototypes. In doing so you get feedback much faster, although BEWARE this feedback can be never ending, so it’s important to time box this exercise.
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Does the number of steps in a booking journey matter?
At the Airline Information Conference, Amadeus showed a study that they conducted, comparing major airlines with regional LCC, and this study showed that most LCC had more steps in their journey than most full service airlines. LCC often requested information sooner, such as an email address, which enabled personalisation and basket abandonment, but many had a number of additional steps.
Amadeus wanted to see how this impacted the user experience. They mapped the time to complete a booking against the number of steps.
What they determined was even with more steps, if the steps are fast and easy (no bullying) that the LCC had a positive experience with the user. Those who were slow negatively impacted the experience.
This shows that more steps doesn’t adversely impact the journey as long as we can handle the information being asked. Its likely to relate to the fact that our memory can only recall information for a limited amount of time. Breaking down steps, enables us to answer effectively, to the LCC’s benefit (to personalise, recover bookings), and also provide a positive experience.
How buying Nike Sneakers could inspire the next travel experience.
Retailers, especially large retailers have spent a lot of time working out how people will buy their products, and as much as I’d love to be part of a team that size, I doubt many travel companies can afford such a budget.
When considering new UX prototypes, its essential to consider ideas, this is usually done by heuristic evaluation, gathering market research, and UX feedback. Continue reading “How buying Nike Sneakers could inspire the next travel experience.”
Architecture and Usability.
When I’m not designing software, I have an interest in modern architecture. Specifically public spaces and buildings. I’m fascinated at the materials and designs which have been put into place. Continue reading “Architecture and Usability.”
Everyday usability
I have always had an interest in design and usability, I’m not entirely sure where this came from.