Recently Amazon announced a contest to evaluate the best Alexa skills, running on the Echo and optionally the Echo Show whilst targeting kids under the age of 13. Novoda is always up for a challenge. Here is what we built. At Novoda we have a mission statement: Together on a
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The Mobile UX London Conference (MUXL), founded by Naveed Ratansi has developed from a series of design meet-ups focussed on mobile user experience. The design team at Novoda were lucky enough to attend their third annual conference with a diverse set of topics spanning research, analytics and emerging technologies. As
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Creating an onboarding for your app can get slightly tricky when combining Lottie with a ViewPager. What if we could get rid of all the nuances and just import an animation, drop some configuration settings and enjoy life? In our previous "Whole Lottie Love" blog post, Chris Basha
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Google Playtime is an event organised for Google Play apps and games partners. With inspiring talks, group discussions and pre-booked one-on-ones with members of the Google team, it's an opportunity to learn about the latest Google product updates, experience new technologies and of course, play in the ball pit during
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Not so long ago, computing was a luxury for the selected few. Just a small number of people had access to a computer and less so, to the internet. This changed dramatically after the release of the smartphone. Computing became more personal and people started using technology more than ever.
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Voice recognition, face recognition, text recognition are only some possibilities that are enabled through Machine Learning. It is a technology that can allow our devices to get a better understanding of our world, our actions and intentions of using them, allowing us that way to design and build better context-aware
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Android Wear 2.0 is focused on bringing standalone apps on smartwatches, but that does not invalidate the key principles that should be followed when designing wearable applications: glanceability and micro user interactions. Glanceability is still the key when presenting data to the user in the small screen of a
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I have to admit, when Lottie was initially announced by Airbnb I didn’t pay too much attention. I just skimmed the Github page without realising its true potential. Fast forward a few months to a project where we had to implement a hero animation in an app and Lottie
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My esteemed colleague Flo and I recently worked on a television guide bot using api.ai + Amazon's AWS backend service to experiment with the capabilities of Voice User Interfaces (VUI). In this blog post I’ve covered the design process we followed to enable voice interfaces in an existing product
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