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Week 9 | Bad design, Good design

Writer: zeyad kenawizeyad kenawi

I will start with addressing a bad design that still needs improvement and it's nearly everywhere but you rarely find someone uses it. Intelligent Assistants:

Google assistant, Siri, Alexa and Cortona are in every home somehow through a laptop, a smartphone or a home assistant but why nobody uses them that often.


The intelligent computer-based assistants combine 5 fundamental user-interface technologies:


1- Voice input: commands are spoken instead of issued through typing or clicking/tapping graphical items.

2- Natural-language understanding: users are not restricted to using a specific, computer-optimized vocabulary or syntax, but can structure their input in many ways, just as they would do in human conversation.

3- Voice output: instead of displaying information on a screen, the assistant reads it out loud.

4- Intelligent interpretation: the assistant utilizes additional information (such as context or past behaviors), besides the user’s literal input, to estimate what the user wants.

5- Agency: the assistant does actions that the user hasn’t requested, but which the computer undertakes on its own.


Based on a study made by Nielsen Norman Group on a group of people who uses this technology often nothing from the above technologies got even a good grade except voice input and it was bad for nonnative speakers as well.


First iPhone:

This product was one of the best designed phones in the history and it really made a revolution in the market and made apple one of the most successful companies in the world.

With being simple but very accessible and easy to use and good integration with iPod and smooth touch screen it has risen in the phone market rapidly fast.

 
 
 

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