DESIGNING FOR VOICE FIRST

Summary from the TLDR Design newsletter

Designing a voice-first app is hard because touch-and-typing workflows get decided first, leaving speech as another way to fill in the same fields. Five principles guide it: make spoken context count, let people steer as they think, show understanding, make correction easy, and let attention come and go. Voice should survive the shift from desk to AirPods and dog walks, so a returning user sees what happened and what still needs them.