Research and Creating user persona's and system persona
Updating code within Amazon Developer Console to match utterances and prompt ID's.
Using Amazon Developer console and WOZ testing. Finding pain points, adjusting code for further testing.
A voice assistant is a wonderful thing, it can remind us of appointments, tell us the weather and send us directions. However, using voice for a recipe or cooking guide – presents itself difficulties without a visual aid.
I enjoyed designing “Cook for Me” because as a voice assistant user myself, I quickly realized that writing out utterances and prompts within Amazon Developer Console proved to be challenging and I’m always up for a challenge.
As a human, we tend to say a lot more than we should and as a device, it often does not understand what we want.
I often find myself remembering a quarter of what Alexa or Siri just said. Taking those points into consideration, I realized I had to re-adjust my writing within the console.
By adjusting the prompts and possible utterances that our user could say, I challenged myself and put myself inside the users head, to define possible outcomes and emphasize with how they would use a recipe guide to quickly whip up a meal with a few things they have in their fridge.
Overall, I realized voice interfaces present challenges and need to be viewed differently to provide a good user experience.
While “Cook for Me” was my first voice interface design project, it certainly will not be my last.
