Welcome to Conversation Design.
At Haptik, we define Conversation Design as the art and science of crafting an experience between a virtual assistant and the end user. The end objective is to craft conversations that are natural and intuitive while scaling these conversations across platforms for all users.
For a successful Conversation Design, you have to think like an architect, mapping what users can do in the space while considering the use-cases and the technological constraints. As a Conversation Designer, you create the conversations, define the flow and its underlying logic in a detailed design document to represent the complete user experience. Conversation Designers partner with stakeholders and developers to iterate on the designs and bring the experience to life.
Getting thorough clarity early in the design phase minimizes the effort spent on making changes in the bot-building phase.
What is the process?
Conversation Design entails the entire structure of your Intelligent Virtual Assistant that spearheads your bot-building process.
Start with prioritizing the use cases based on the business requirement and understand the channel where you will be deploying your IVA. For example, Websites, Mobile App, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, SMS, etc.
Now review the user data and behavior to define a set personality for the IVA
Select a design tool to start designing user journeys as per the use case specified
Iron out edge cases and roadblocks through review and testing
Finally, use this framework to build and deploy conversational journeys on our Haptik platform for a seamless IVA-building experience