While at UX Brighton, Lorraine Burrell kindly invited me to The AI Meet-up South - Conversational AI Edition event. The theme of the event was reflections on 2024. There were three great talks focused on chatbots and the world of conversational product design. As with many of these events, the…
Massively enjoyed UX Brighton this year! All the talks were really insightful with interesting threads and themes weaving through the whole day. Thanks to the other speakers: Will Taylor, Hannah Beresford, Philip Bonhard, Pablo Stanley, Kwame Ferreira Maggie Appleton, Manú Bartlett and Ewa Koc. Maggie's talk on "Expanding Dark Forest"…
I had a great time giving a talk at UX Edinburgh. Many thanks to our host Nile, whose office space must be located on one of the most picturesque streets in Edinburgh. Neil Collman, the Design Director, shared some insightful research on users' thinking about AI. I gave my talk,…
I'm incredibly excited to be speaking at UX Brighton 2024 in November! This year's conference theme, "What do UX designers, researchers, and managers need to know about AI?", perfectly aligns with my interests. I'm developing a talk about how the new generation of ML will reshape user interface patterns. UX…
This book offers a thought-provoking introduction to the mechanics of conversation. It creates a forceful case for the importance of timing, repair, and the procedural utterances we use to construct successful conversations. Enfield methodically unveils the hidden and unconscious scaffolding we use as we talk to each other. Who knew…
Conversation With Things is a fascinating journey into the world of conversational design. Authors Diana Deibel and Rebecca Evanhoe have gone to great lengths to produce the introduction they wish they'd had when they started. Two chapters, 'Talking like a Person' and 'Complex Conversations', truly demonstrate an understanding of the…
Conversational Design could have been a straightforward view on the emergence of voice interfaces such as Alexa or the UI of customer service bots that live in the bottom right-hand corner of many sites. Instead, Erika Hall explores the rich possibilities of conversational language in UX from a more holistic…
Talk descriptionMore organisations are looking to automate tasks and gain insights from large amounts of text. JavaScript is a powerful language for text wrangling and machine learning, allowing developers to quickly and easily manipulate text data. We will look at different approaches from rules-based parsing to neural nets. Exploring what…
Two years ago I wrote a blog post about hosting Node.js servers on Scaleway. I have now started using Nginx to allow me to host multiple sites on one €2.99 a month server. This tutorial will help you build a multi site hosting environment for Node.js servers. We are going…
Listed below are some of my favourite sessions from Fullstack 2015 conference. This post is a collection of links for when I am talking to someone about that speaker or project I cannot remember. SkillMatter have published videos, unfortunately only for people with a logon. The talks where of a…