Voice User Interface Design VUI

As of yesterday, the Association of Voice Interaction Design AVIxD site is live and available. If you’re a practitioner of voice and multimodal experience design, are curious about speech and it’s implementation in the real world, or simply want to hang-around self-minded individuals, make sure to check them out and apply for this year’s AVIxD Workshop (May 29 deadline).

That’s great news!

Welcome to VUIDesign.net. I got tired of reading and listening to self-proclaimed “gurus” of Voice User Interface Design, in particular around the Usability area, and decided it was time for me to make a stand!

I can’t believe most of the “expert advice” given by them is nothing but things that the web community has learned, tested and improved over a good number of years to the point where they are well-known standards.

That’s right. Even though it may sound as if they are “visionaries” in the telephony field, most of the time it just requires looking around at what’s happening in other fields or over the last few years on the web world, and voilá, we can see it’s nothing more than history repeating itself on a new medium (something like the battle we’re currently seeing between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD… anyone remembers Beta and VHS? )

Anyway, my objective is to share with you those things that worked and that failed on the field, interesting development and articles from the VUI community, and any other design “similarities” that I run across everyday: things I read, website I see, places I go, products I use, etc., which in my opinion provide us with “hidden gems” that can be generalized and applied to any Design to make them better and easier to use… in particular, in the field of Voice User Interface Design.

Enjoy!