Botiquette

Collection of thoughts about chatbots & conversational UI

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Msg.ai’s Puneet Mehta on The Rise of AI, The Potential For Bots and Life As A Current YC Startup

As the 126 entrepreneurs in the latest batch prepare for their big day, we thought we'd catch up with one of these founders before their nervous 3 minute..

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Quietly Growing Users++

Back in December 2015, betaworks released PlusPlus++, a small project experimenting with bots on Slack. It was not the t…

Real numbers from the team behind PlusPlus++ at Betaworks.

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Chatbot as an interface for the Internet of Things?

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The New York Times built a Slack bot to help decide which stories to post to social media

The bot, named Blossom, helps predict how stories will do on social and also suggests which stories editors should promote.

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Oh Hi There, Bot

UX reflections on Slack bot discovery, onboarding, interaction

Some fun thoughts on Slack bots. I especially like the section about emoji reactions.

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Check out the new AI-powered TechCrunch news bot on Telegram messenger

We're excited to announce the launch of our first artificial intelligence-powered news bot on the encrypted messaging platform Telegram

TechCrunch launches their own Telegram bot! Quartz, anyone?

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A Vlog by Ran Segall, a top-end interface designer, about a fun little conversational-interface tool they’re building at the NuSchool. 

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The Future of Conversational UI Belongs to Hybrid Interfaces

2016 is the year of everything conversational. Messaging apps are taking over the world and app store rankings with incr…

A truly fascinating read about bundling mini-applications in chat.

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The Future of Chat Isn’t AI

Instant interaction is key

Really clever analysis of chatbots by Ted Livingston of Kik.

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The Hidden Homescreen — Prototyping: From UX to Front End

A conversation about conversational interfaces.

A conversation about conversational interfaces.

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Introducing botwick. Want a bot? Got a bot? botwick and how to roll your own …

There are magical moments in computing when all of a sudden something that was expensive and complicated becomes easy an…

A fun tutorial for creating an SMS bot by John Borthwick of Betaworks.

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Designing for messaging will become a discipline as important as responsive design, and will incorporate skills as diverse as copy writing, business analytics and API programming.

Ben Brown

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A collection curated by Product Hunt, featuring products like Notify, Statsbot, Slack App Directory, SlackStack, and Slack List

Great collection of Slackbots and integration on Product Hunt.

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Conversational commerce — Chris Messina

When the point of sale comes to the messaging channel

Chris Messina argues that “concierge-style services may become the primary way in which people transact on their mobile devices.”

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Create a Slackbot using Botkit

Slackbot Last week, Slack announced an $80M fund to invest in startups that build software with Slack integration. It also launched the Slack App Directory, which allow developers to upload Slackbots and Slack integrations. On the same day, Howdy, one...

This is a great little tutorial for building a Slack bot using Howdy’s Botkit, a bot development toolkit.

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Matty Mariansky offers guidelines for translating specific patterns into conversational form when designing conversational UIs.

Part two of Matty Mariansky’s bot design guidelines. I find these spot on and very thought provoking. 

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What if an interface has no (graphic) interface? Matty Mariansky introduces us to designing conversational UIs.

This is part one of a two part series on designing bots. Matty Mariinsky has a ton of experience with conversational UI, having worked on Meekan, a top-notch Slack scheduling bot.