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The Ultimate Conversation Design Course Guide

December 2023 Edition — I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to write this post. The idea for a course catalog of conversation design courses has been parked in my drafts for the entire year. This was originally supposed to be titled, “The 2023 guide to conversation design courses,” but here we are…

Conversation Design

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The Ultimate Conversation Design Course Guide
The Ultimate Conversation Design Course Guide
Conversation Design

12 min read


Nov 27

2021 was kind to me: a year in review

Reflecting on where I was to appreciate what I have now✨ — This is a year in review. It’s also a reflection of my journey, and everything it took to get where I am today: working in a promising, fulfilling career track with a job I don’t want to escape from. This isn’t a flex. 2022 started out less than ideal with…

Career Advice

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2021 was kind to me: a year in review
2021 was kind to me: a year in review
Career Advice

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Bootcamp

·Nov 5

Questions to ask potential employers: a guide for CxDs

Getting the most out of your next CxD job interview — Interviews go both ways. In these trying times of layoffs and non-existent UX job listings, it might seem a little pretentious to ask that candidates be “more picky” about their future employer, but the questions you pose the hiring team have 2 core functions. The questions you ask show you’re: …

Conversation Design

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Questions to ask potential employers: a guide for CxDs
Questions to ask potential employers: a guide for CxDs
Conversation Design

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Bootcamp

·Aug 27

Becoming a senior conversation designer: how to tell when you’ve ✨made✨ it

The baby to senior conversation designer pipeline — Being a conversation designer is absolutely terrifying. Don’t come at me with “Oh, but the discipline has existed for several decades, it just wasn’t called ‘conversation design’ back then. It’s more established now” or “Yeah, but, the work is incredibly rewarding.” Today we’re not talking about the warm fuzzies of…

Conversation Design

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Becoming a senior conversation designer: how to tell when you’ve ✨made✨ it
Becoming a senior conversation designer: how to tell when you’ve ✨made✨ it
Conversation Design

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Voice This! Podcast

·Jun 8

Meet the Voice This! Podcast Team

Hello, world! We’re the VTP Team — It takes a village to raise a child, and it takes a team to run a podcast. In this day and age, if your podcast isn’t on social media or doesn’t have show notes, then by the modern definition of creating content: it doesn’t exist. Voice This! Podcast recently formed…

Podcast

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Meet the Voice This! Podcast Team
Meet the Voice This! Podcast Team
Podcast

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Women in Voice

·May 2

How to Get Hired in Conversation Design Part 3

3 more conversation designers share their story — This is part 3 of a 3 part blog series! Visit part 1 here, part 2 here. Backstreet’s back. That’s right, part 3 of the “How to Get Hired” series is back with 3 more conversation designers. In part 1 of the series, I included designers who had been in…

Conversation Design

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How to Get Hired in Conversation Design Part 3
How to Get Hired in Conversation Design Part 3
Conversation Design

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Bootcamp

·Updated Mar 11

Confessions of a conversation designer

5 Things I wish I knew before becoming a CxD — Last month, I unceremoniously acknowledged my 2 year anniversary as a full-time conversation designer. I write “unceremoniously” because I’m usually the kind of person to cling to every milestone and anniversary like cat fur on black clothing. I love milestones, and I’ve celebrated them before by writing blog posts 6…

Conversation Design

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Confessions of a conversation designer
Confessions of a conversation designer
Conversation Design

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Feb 1

Podcasts para aprender más sobre el diseño conversacional

Podcasts sobre diseño de interfaces de voz y chat — El diseño conversacional es una carrera relativamente nueva en la industria tecnológica, pero su importancia está creciendo rápidamente. La creación de asistentes virtuales, chatbots y aplicaciones de voz se está convirtiendo en una necesidad para muchas empresas en todo el mundo. Igual que el diseño UX, el diseño conversacional se…

Conversational AI

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Podcasts para aprender más sobre el diseño conversacional
Podcasts para aprender más sobre el diseño conversacional
Conversational AI

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Nov 11, 2022

Everyday Speech: Examples of TTS out in the wild

3 text-to-speech examples I’ve randomly encountered online — Long before the rise of Bev Standing’s iconic text-to-speech voice all over TikTok and the internet, we’ve heard computers talk. Most people in this day and age have experienced the phenomenon of synthetic speech and its eerie non-human-ness. …

Text To Speech

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Everyday Speech: Examples of TTS out in the wild
Everyday Speech: Examples of TTS out in the wild
Text To Speech

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UX Planet

·Sep 28, 2022

The CxD Toolkit

Different tools & methodologies conversation designers use — Conversation design is hard. Though not completely unlike designing for mobile and web interfaces, conversational experiences are still a unique problem area to solve for and require specific methodologies as part of the design process. …

Conversation Design

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The CxD Toolkit
The CxD Toolkit
Conversation Design

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