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Mobile Application for UX Specialists

Hello!
We would like to hear your ideas and opinions on having a mobile application for UX Specialists.
Help us brainstorm by answering the questions below. We look forward to receiving your thoughts and insights.

1. Do you know of tools/applications/activities that are useful for User Experience Specialists?
2. Do you think having a mobile application for User Experience Specialists will be useful?
3. If so, what features/tools should the application have?

Android 4.0, Siri and Tangible Future of Voice Search UX

Today, Apple announced a bunch of enhancements to Siri and voice search. How does Siri UX compare with Android 4.0? What’s just around the corner for Voice Search? 

http://www.designcaffeine.com/articles/android-4-0-siri-and-tangible-future-of-voice-search-ux/

Writing Interaction Documentation for iOS

I've completed the UI and UX design for an iPad app and now it's time to hand everything off for development and I was wondering if there were any best practices for documenting the interaction design for the developer. Our dev is in house, so I can just pop over and talk to him, but I think documentation would be best for workflow.  

If you've had experience documenting interaction design for iOS in the past, please share. 

Cheers, 

Emmett

Is the search button becoming obsolete

General usability guidelines states users expect a search feature to contain besides the search field, a button labeled "search". Looking at recent designs of search, the button is disappearing. These lack the search button.

• All Apple search, i.e. apple.com, Spotlight and iOS. They have a clear button. On iOS, the keyboard provides a search button.
• Google Chrome. The address bar functions as a search and is activated by pressing Enter.