Bots You may not need a UI
BotsYou may not need a UI
2016
Bots are everywhere!
ChatBots
WhatsApp Messenger QQ WeChatSkype Viber
LINE BBM Telegram
Gold Rush
Write a chatbot and …
$$$$$$$$$$$$$
?
App Stores
FeaturedTop
Preinstalled
Window of opportunityweeks days hours
Win a WWDC ticketShow a prototype
“Oh cool, we’ll feature you”actually viable option
AppStoreMessenger Bot Store
$$$
FeaturedTop
Contact List
People + Groups + Bots
MarketChallenges
80% of AppsNever Downloaded
Sustainability
5 years from now
5 years before now
Anti-Hype Approach
My Phone Broke
called themscheduled a pick-up
got SMS
2 days later they called me to agree on a repair
SMS with a price and account details
online bank
call to schedulea delivery
never metno app
no e-commerce site
7 yearssustainable businesslargest in the country
Do you need an App?
Dawn of Software
Business Processes
60s-80s
Paper => Digital
Disconnected Machines
Solo Work
All-Day Workflows
Attention = Value
Consumer Web
More TimeMore Attention
More Ad Revenue
Yet AnotherSocial Network
“a user wants to use our application”
New thinking
give maximum valuein minimal time
There’s an app for that
“app”
40s downloadSignup (+ email!)learning curve
single action
buy a conference ticketweather
order a taxi
phone repair = 10 minutes
phone callsgetting dressed to meet a
delivery person
App is almost always a wrong answer
Have an app? So what?
Website?
2s download
+20s to downloadFONTS!
Take a tour!
signup
Remember thatEU cookie law?
Your helpful reminder
switch to desktop version
ptss! we have an APP!
Where’s that one feature I need?
Website is better
Shift
old: streamnew: notification
automate!
sales
automatic cold email
third-party handles replies
canned responsesschedule a sales call
calendar
email actions
click here if you’re interested
LogisticsSubcontractors
Matching
No UI
No Dedicated UI
No Routine UI
Social MediaMonitoring
Dashboard with non-actionable data
ReportsHow my dashboard
looked last week
FeedLinks to FB posts so you can argue
DashboardReports
Feed
Pull model
all day
TediousBoring
Counterproductive
AI
Sentiment analysisClustering
Outlier detection
AlertsAutomatic Reports
ActionableUsefull
Push model
Rethink the business process
Start from
UI
UX
process
Machine + Human
AI by defaultHuman when necessary
Replace a company with a program
money making wonder
Building Blocks
APIs
any messenger platform
smsphone
Phone is a new Email
2000s desktop email2010s mobile phone
everyone has sms
text us
1-800-whateverShort codes
AI APIs
Writing your own AIWriting your own jQuery
unnecessarynot cool anymore
pick a libraryplug it in
move on with your life
human-as-an-api
third-party UIs
Calendar EmailSalesForce ZenDesk FB Page
Chat smsExcel pdf
Talk to you customerTalk to your product team
Talk to your users
Bots
No UI
push model
AI by defaultHuman when necessary
give maximum valuein minimal time
Build Great Products!
Chris Messinaa16z WeChat
botlist.co Slack AppsBot Framework
http://j.mp/cortana-bots-build2016