The Future of Conversational UI Belongs to Hybrid Interfaces (medium.com)

Really? Chat apps are still a thing? I thought the hype is over... oh, the article is from March.

They took over the world ,then they gave it back a few months later.

Says the developer of a hybrid UI library.

> 2016 is the year of everything conversational. Messaging apps are taking over the world and app store rankings with incredible retention and engagement rates. Every community, marketplace, on-demand service, dating app, social game or e-commerce product has or will soon have messaging as part of the experience to drive retention, engagement and transaction volume.

BINGO!

Seriously I can't take this article seriously with that kind of opening. Wow.

Is most of Medium crap?

Completely orthogonal: the screenshot implies the Xerox Star had DOS emulation?

Gee, it's almost like computing is better when it's ubiquotous.

More than being about lots of different applications, targeting narrow or large modes or modalities of user experience, computing seems most powerful when core concepts are free from preconceptions of UI and UX.