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Makeskill Design Kit

A multimodal rapid prototyping suite for the Alexa platform using Google Sheets

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Updated on December 14, 2018

Why use Makeskill?

Collaborate on Alexa Skill design through the familiar Google Sheets

Non-technical stakeholders and engineers can work together in rapid prototyping new Skill concepts. Working with Makeskill greatly streamlines your communication and experiments.

This tool is a fit for teams who use Spreadsheets for their everyday workflow. Simply plug in intents, utterances, and the responses you want and Makeskill will automagically generate the files needed to be deployed to your devices or simulators!

Preview your multimodal designs across the Echo family

Now it's easy to get a quick preview of the card designs directly on your Echo devices with screens without having to program out the templates yourself! We provide Sketch templates for graphic designers to use alongside guidelines detailing out some best practices.

Streamline parallel experiments by designing Skill batches

Looking for ways to compare and contrast text copy for Skill responses? Create multiple batches of responses in the same Spreadsheet while sharing the same interaction model. You can export a Skill in a jiffy!

Recycle auto-generated interaction model and Lambda function code

You can choose to recycle the code that's generated from Makeskill. Check the lambda and model folders which scaffolded the work for you!

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