The Impact of Voice in UX Design: And what to do about it UX Booth

For consumers, the continuing growth of voice UX is undoubtedly a welcome development – as evidenced by the proliferation of platforms and devices integrating the tech, and the increasing number of people getting acclimated to using voice. But for web and application designers, voice interaction represents, perhaps, the biggest UX challenge since the dawn of the touchscreen age. By now, everyone is familiar with all the quirky names of voice assistants--Siri, Cortana, Bixby, and Alexa--a testament to the new level voice UI has reached in the last few years. The technology only looks to soar higher, with its capabilities penetrating more and more digital ecosystems. Voice User Interfaces (VUI), essentially, is the ability to speak to devices and its capability, in turn, to understand and act upon users' commands.