Three questions with An Event Apart speakers

An Event Apart speakers Jen Simmons, Kate O’Neill, Jason Grigsby, and Jeremey Keith took a moment to answer a few of our questions on what inspires their work and how to be a better UX designer.
Alexa Skill Blueprints and the Promise of User-Centered Voice Design

Building applications without having to intensively write code have been a quest throughout internet history. Amazon taking the plunge into an easy-to-build set of Alexa applications bodes well for the maturity of voice assistance. More than that, the injection of solid design practices into Skill Blueprints affirms what we’ve known about user experience all along – it is the keystone to any organization making usable applications that people come back to again and again.
A Guide to Interviewing Users

Interviews provide a wealth of qualitative information – thoughts, feelings, frustrations, anecdotes, and much more – about a certain task or situation that you can’t necessarily glean from a data set or a research report. Learn the benefits of interviewing and how to interview users the right way so you get the most valuable information from the beginning of the design discovery phase.