Alexa Skill Blueprints
Alexa Blueprints are templates you can use to build your very own Alexa Skills without code. This opened up the world of skill building to non-developers who need quick templates by category to make skills such as trivia, menus, and more.
Project:
Create an easy to use template system for customers without coding experience to create their own custom Alexa skills.
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How to make a system that is easy to fill out and intuitive for customers of all ages?
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Customers were daunted by the amount of coding knowledge needed to craft Alexa Skills. Many small businesses and Alexa users at home just wanted small, customized solutions for their own use.
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Conduct user research through customer surveys.
Iterate on designs with content strategist and design technologist > Send for review to stakeholders.
Build out site using an internal content management tool and page builder.
Site review & QA by writer and design technologist.
Launch site to the public.
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Launch was well received by the public and the media as a unique way to get everyday customers involved with building their own skill. Within the first day, over 2k blueprints skills were built!
Easy to use templates
We created a simple set of templates as forms that you can fill out to make your own versions of particular skill types. This has been a very popular product in real estate, schools, and churches.
Quickly scan, not slog through a text FAQ graveyard
We created a help guide that was light and kept instructions simple to keep in the spirit of the blueprints themselves. We didn’t want to burden customers with a ton of reading material and provided instructional videos for each topic as well.