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Expert Analysis: OfferUp's Design Director on In-App Chat & AI Defining the Next Decade
In 2017, start-up darling OfferUp, fresh off a $130 million round of funding that set the company’s valuation over $1 billion, was moving into a new 70,000-square-foot office near Seattle to accommodate a rapidly growing employee headcount. And the company needed some new furniture. Luckily, it knew just the place to look, eventually outfitting the
4 Ways Figma Has Transformed (And Improved) Stream’s Design Team
The Stream design team is spread out across the world. We reside in every U.S. time zone along with a presence in Amsterdam. From brainstorms to product launches, our geographical arrangement requires that we are committed to over-communicating with each other and sharing not only our work but also the thinking and reasoning behind many
How Craigslist’s Competition is Winning the UX Battle With In-App Chat
When buying or selling used items online, where is the first place people turn? Ask six people, and you may get six different answers. But a common option, or at least consideration, remains Craigslist. Perhaps because of its first-to-the-party status (est. 1995) and subsequent success, the company’s brand remains sturdy decades later, maintaining an undeniable
How In-App Chat Can Solve the Dreadful UX of iOS-Android Messaging
The Green Text. For iPhone users, few interactions on the device elicit such stress — or outright torment — as does the subjugation of an SMS (Short Message Service) text rendered in green. And inboxes are littered with them: political text messages have flooded mobile phones in the last few months, all of which are
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Stream Expert: Designing Best-in-Class Customer Support Live Chat Experiences
“Live chat,” as Stream recently wrote, “lets participants skip formalities and get right to the point.” In keeping with this spirit, we’ll do just that. But, first, some quick scene-setting: as a follow-up to our best practices overview for Sales & Customer Service (and what better time than now, the holiday season?) we sat down
What Can We Learn From In-App Chat to Improve Onboarding UX?
Americans send and receive an average of 94 text messages per day. If we’re awake for 16 hours each day, that comes to 5.8 texts an hour, or just less than one every ten waking minutes. And though these text messages stats don’t include in-app chat — communication among people on third-party apps, such as
Exploring Livestream Chat UX: Threads and Replies
Throughout its regular season, Major League Baseball selects a “game of the week” to broadcast live on YouTube. Along with streaming the game, viewers can participate in or read the accompanying chat. Slow-moving by nature, baseball produces its share of lulls, and it is those times between pitches or innings that make for good browsing
7 UX Best Practices for Livestream Chat
In its simplest form, livestream chat is a real-time message board whose participants are communicating in the moment. The practice has gained significant popularity over the last several years — and is accelerating during the last six months —with apps like YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitch, and Periscope all adopting the experience within their platforms. Live
In-App Chat Messaging UI/UX Impact
Adding chat to your application has traditionally been a rather complicated process. Most of the early direct messaging with chat were handled by dedicated third party applications like AOL Instant Messenger. The internet thrived early on because it made messaging your friends, receiving news, building communities through private or group chat rooms easy and quick
Chatbots: The Future of Customer Service
Chatbots provide an automated conversational interface that can positively impact your business. Imagine a customer calls a support center, and they're stuck waiting to get a simple question answered. Not only do customers get frustrated, but having human beings respond to each call is difficult and challenging to scale. Chatbots are where the conversational UI