Conversation Design Institute was founded in 2018 by Hans van Dam and Olaf Igesz. They believed that recognizing, developing, and promoting the role of the conversation designer was crucial to advancing trust and communication between humans and AI Assistants.
The CDI Foundation is a non-profit organisation dedicated to developing and promoting design standards for conversational AI Assistants. We do this through research, education and industry development.
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CDI Method Foundation
Learn the conversational AI workflow that is helping teams around the world create human-centric and inclusive conversational AI Assistants. This cour…
CDI Workflow
Learn the Conversation Design Institute workflow with extra attention to human-centricity, sample dialogue, flowchart design, wizard-of-oz testing, an…
Conversation Design Fundamentals
Learn what Conversation design is. And learn how to apply all the fundamental conversation design principles and techniques, to create a successful Co…
Conversation Design Fundamentals - Hans van Dam
The key steps in the CDI Workflow, which design patterns should be used for which type of experience, and lots of examples of how to write good dialog…
Design for Business Value
IBM’s Thomas Watson Jr. said, “Good design is good business.” How does this apply to conversational AI today? This talk explores the benefits of prior…
Designing Multimodal AI Agents
In this episode of Unprompted, Karen Kaushansky, UX Lead for Gemini Live at Google DeepMind, shares how conversation design has evolved from flowchart…
Ethics
Learn the fundamentals of AI ethics and how to apply ethical principles in the conversational AI workflow. Explore real-world dilemmas, prevent harmfu…
Evolution of CXD at Salesforce
Learn about the evolution of conversation design at Salesforce with Greg Bennett.
Getting Started with Conversational AI Basics
Discover how AI-driven chatbots and virtual assistants can transform operations, enhance customer experiences, and improve efficiency. This webinar of…
How CXD Transforms the Future of Womens Health
Female health has long been overlooked in medicine. Conversation design can change that—at scale. By helping women harness their body signals, it has…
Importance of Character in CXD
Jason is multi Webby award winner and expert character designer. He started out as a filmmaker but fell in love with conversational AI many years ago.…
Introduction to Conversation Design
Get a basic understanding of how AI Assistants work and become familiar with the workflow of designing conversations. Train your skills right away wit…
Introduction to Prompt Design
Learn how ChatGPT can be used to maximise the performance of your chatbots and IVR systems and create delightful conversational experiences. The cours…
Leveraging the Power of Conversation
Introducing Google Business Messages:
- The What
- The Why
- The How
Linguistics in CXD
Greg Bennet is head of conversation design at Salesforce. He heads up the team that is challenged on a daily basis with advocating conversation design…
Multi-path Conversation Design Patterns
One size doesn’t fit all in conversational logic. Christian Buchwald, Chatbot Enthusiast at Cognigy, shares how to build resilience in conversation de…
Operationalizing Context in Conversational AI
SPEAKING model – a conceptual framework where we turn abstract concepts in Conversational AI into something that can help us systematically gather lan…
Persona Development
Learn about how to create or refine your conversational AI persona. Learn how to create content to flesh out that personality and make your conversati…
Persona Panel
Experts who shaped personas for Google, Babylon Health, and Daimler discuss why brands need personas, how to develop them, and their role in personali…
Persona in Conversational AI
Jason Gilbert from Intuition Robotics discusses designing ElliQ, an AI companion for elderly users. He explores persona design, building trust in heal…
Personality as a Design Framework
What's the fuss about? CDIS' Jasper Klimbie shares his philosophy on 'Personality as a Design Framework' for your conversational AI project.
Skillset
Hans van Dam will discuss the CDI workflow that helps teams create human-centric and inclusive AI Assistants.
And of course, ChatGPT is also one of t…
The Future of Human and Virtual Collaboration
A 3-5 year view of how virtual assitants will become ubiquitous and part of how we manage our personal lives. For that to come about we explore what n…
Why Creative People are Great CXD
In this chat, listen to Tony & Kat discuss why creative artists will be the next generation of conversation designers.
Workshop: Real World Lessons in CXD
Learn from experienced practitioners Jurgen Gravestein and Martin Andersen in this workshop recording.
Your next step in Conversational AI maturity
CDI’s Jasper Klimbie and Michelle Parayil deliver a rare, practical webinar focused on providing guidance on how mature organizations are in their Con…