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November Update – Voice User Interface

November Update – Voice User Interface

What is Voice User Interface Design?

A voice-user interface (VUI) makes human interaction with computers possible through a voice/speech platform in order to initiate an automated service or process.” VUI design focuses on the process of interaction design for the user and the voice application system.

Smartphone with microphone icon highlighted

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February Updates – Mobile and Responsive Design

February Updates – Mobile and Responsive Design

We thought it would be helpful to review the fundamentals of web design for aspiring web professionals in this article.

Responsive Web design is a Web design approach aimed at crafting sites to provide an optimal viewing experience. This is also aimed for easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling across a wide range of devices.

What Is Mobile Responsive Design?

When a website is responsive, the layout and/or content responds or adapts based on the size of screen they are presented on. A responsive website automatically changes to fit the device you’re reading it on. Typically there have been four general screen sizes that responsive design has been aimed at: the widescreen desktop monitor, the smaller desktop or laptop, the tablet and the mobile phone.

 

 

Josh Byers 2012 article – A Beginner’s Guide to Mobile Responsive Design – StudioPress has examples given as the screen gets smaller, the content shifts and changes to the best display for each screen. This article also has more detailed information about

  • Why Should I Care About Mobile Responsive Design? These days we need to think of mobile first.
  • We first need to optimize the layout of the content.
  • Next, we need to adapt the content that is shown (and only show content that is really needed).
  • It has been amazingly easy to create a mobile responsive website for some time.

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