This article is a quick summary of a basic design course. It addresses a simple question: How do you design interactive systems that are easy to understand? Well, it all comes down to two things: structure and process. Whenever we look at something we interpret what we see.

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Chatbots, as they exist today, do not have much capability to understand natural human language. And this is one of the main reasons why most of the messaging apps(Messenger, Kik etc) are resorting to a mix of graphical and text UI in their bot platforms - think of buttons, carousels, image cards and not just text responses.

Arrival is, to be sure, an alien flick. But under that sci-fi veneer is a film about communication, and the effort required to understand someone (or, in this case, some thing) who looks and speaks differently than you do.

This guide offers a sampling of effective questions to help evaluate the breadth and depth of a candidate's skills as a freelance designer.