Party like it's 1970: Conversational interfaces are back (into your Android app)

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Survey of conversational UX history from Bell Labs digits to HMMs to Dragon in 1997 and modern assistants, with practical design rules for Android apps that use Dialogflow for intent/entity extraction and Firebase cloud functions for fulfillment. Advises building a persona, writing a screenplay (happy path plus graceful fallbacks), keeping speech short, using conversational markers, and constraining user choices. Shows a number-guess game (0–100) as an example and explains how context and turn-taking replace traditional error messages.

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1. 0:00Introduction and history
2. 3:49Design process for conversational UX
3. 20:41Best practices and Dialogflow demo
4. 29:17Summary and implementation steps
5. 31:24Closing and Q&A

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