prep Tesla Prepares for Wider Release of Its Driver-Assistance Software By Published On :: Tue, 05 Oct 2021 11:00:00 GMT Tesla is expanding access to the company’s city-driving tool to some customers. In this video, WSJ explains what’s in the new software and the controversy surrounding its limited release. Photo: Tesla Full Article
prep Brace For Impact: Earth Prepares For Massive Solar Flare After Sun Unleashes Its Fiery Power By www.oneindia.com Published On :: Sun, 06 Oct 2024 08:50:07 +0530 Our Sun provides light, heat and the energy essential for survival. But it also has a fiery underbelly. The Sun has once again demonstrated its raw power. It has shot one of the strongest solar flares in recent history and our Full Article
prep Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rishabh Pant Kick Start Preparation For Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25, Video Goes Viral - Watch By Published On :: Tuesday, November 12, 2024, 14:34 +0530 Rishabh Pant, on the other hand, has already proven himself in Australia with his remarkable performances during India’s 2020-2021 tour. Full Article
prep LIC AAO 2023 Mains Admit Card Declared; Check Exam Preparation Tips Here By www.careerindia.com Published On :: Wed, 15 Mar 2023 11:51:57 +0530 The Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) has released the Assistant Administrative Officers (AAO) Mains admit card for the phase 2 exam.Candidates who are going to appear for the LIC AAO examination can download the LIC AAO 2023 Mains admit card Full Article
prep Preventing Dementia? : Critical Perspectives on a New Paradigm of Preparing for Old Age [Electronic book] / ed. by Silke Schicktanz, Annette Leibing. By encore.st-andrews.ac.uk Published On :: New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2020] Full Article
prep CO2 hydrogenation to light olefins over Fe–Co/K–Al2O3 catalysts prepared via microwave calcination By pubs.rsc.org Published On :: React. Chem. Eng., 2024, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/D4RE00428K, PaperNutkamaithorn Polsomboon, Thanapha Numpilai, Kulpavee Jitapunkul, Kajornsak Faungnawakij, Metta Chareonpanich, Xingda An, Le He, Günther Rupprechter, Thongthai WitoonMicrowave calcination optimizes the Fe–C/Fe3O4 ratio to 0.34, enhancing CO2 conversion and light olefin yield.To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above.The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry Full Article
prep Removal of gaseous Hg0 by Cl-loaded carbonaceous material prepared from rice husk By pubs.rsc.org Published On :: React. Chem. Eng., 2024, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/D4RE00414K, PaperNaoto Tsubouchi, Momone Yoshizawa, Javzandogole Bud, Yuuki MochizukiThe main objective of this study was to investigate the removal of gaseous Hg0 from the residue obtained during the chlorination of rice husk char to recover silica.To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above.The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry Full Article
prep Preparation of modified humic acid/TiO2/P(AA-co-AM) nanocomposite hydrogels with enhanced dye adsorption and photocatalysis By pubs.rsc.org Published On :: Soft Matter, 2024, 20,2937-2954DOI: 10.1039/D3SM01749D, PaperXuankun Gong, Amatjan Sawut, Rena Simayi, Ziyue Wang, Yurou FengA novel composite hydrogel with exceptional adsorption and photocatalytic properties was synthesized using modified coal-based humic acid (HA-C), modified titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles, acrylic acid (AA), and acrylamide (AM) as precursors.The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry Full Article
prep Preparation of N-MG-modified PVDF-CTFE substrate composite nanofiltration membrane and its selective separation of salt and dye By pubs.rsc.org Published On :: RSC Adv., 2024, 14,11992-12008DOI: 10.1039/D4RA00359D, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Xinyu Pan, Jian Pan, Zhuoqun Li, Wenqiang Gai, Guangshun Dong, Min Huang, Lilan HuangN-Methylglucamine (N-MG) was introduced to poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-chlorotrifluoroethylene) (PVDF-CTFE) porous substrate membrane to enhance its hydrophilicity and permeability, leading to the preparation of a composite NF membrane with selective separation performance for many dyes and salts.The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry Full Article
prep Research on preparation and related properties of macro–micro porous mullite ceramic skeletons via twice pore-forming technology By pubs.rsc.org Published On :: RSC Adv., 2024, 14,12624-12632DOI: 10.1039/D4RA01277A, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Chunxia Xu, Rui Hu, Ying Liu, Zhe Chen, Zhen Liu, Wenbin HanThe macro–micro composite porous mullite ceramic skeletons were prepared using coal gangue and α-Al2O3 as main raw materials via twice pore-forming technology. The main phase of the porous ceramic skeletons is mullite.The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry Full Article
prep 1D hollow tubular/2D nanosheet hybrid dimensional porous carbon prepared by one-step carbonization using natural minerals as templates for supercapacitors By pubs.rsc.org Published On :: RSC Adv., 2024, 14,13190-13199DOI: 10.1039/D4RA01873G, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Fangfang Liu, Chao Zhang, Weiwei Huang, Lei Chen, Yuanshuang Wang, Jinan Niu, Xiuyun Chuan1D hollow tubular/2D nanosheet hybrid dimensional porous carbon was synthesized through one-step carbonization using 1D fibrous brucite and 2D layered magnesium carbonate hydroxide as templates.The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry Full Article
prep A facile and versatile platform for preparing uniform π-conjugated nanofibers with controlled length and varying shells By pubs.rsc.org Published On :: Polym. Chem., 2024, 15,4231-4243DOI: 10.1039/D4PY00979G, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Bo Xiang, Hongluo Wu, Rang Chen, Xiaoyu Huang, Guolin Lu, Chun FengA versatile and facile platform is developed for the generation of uniform π-conjugated nanofibers with controlled length and varying shells by the combination of pentafluorophenyl ester chemistry and a self-seeding strategy.The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry Full Article
prep A novel amine-first strategy suitable for preparing both functional and engineering bio-polyamides: furfurylamine as the sole furan source for bisfuranic diamine/diacid monomers By pubs.rsc.org Published On :: Polym. Chem., 2024, 15,4433-4446DOI: 10.1039/D4PY00567H, PaperHong-Hui Shu, Yun Liu, Sheng-Li Han, Xiu-Qin Fang, Chang Wang, Cheng-Mei LiuBiomass-based polyamides (bioPAs) are renewable materials that are viable alternatives to petroleum-based polyamides in the engineering field.The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry Full Article
prep Strategies to prepare polymers with cleavable linkages releasing active agents in acidic media By pubs.rsc.org Published On :: Polym. Chem., 2024, 15,4491-4518DOI: 10.1039/D4PY00854E, Review ArticleNachnicha Kongkatigumjorn, Daniel CrespyHydrolysis stability of labile linkages in polymers can be tuned through careful selection of substituent groups near these linkages to selectively release active substances.The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry Full Article
prep One-pot rapid preparation of long-term antioxidant and antibacterial biomedical gels based on lipoic acid and eugenol for accelerating cutaneous wound healing By pubs.rsc.org Published On :: J. Mater. Chem. B, 2024, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/D4TB01844C, PaperYungang Feng, Fangrui Xie, Rui Ding, Qingrong Zhang, Youzhi Zeng, Li Li, Lianbin Wu, Yunlong Yu, Linxuan FangA medical antibacterial gel with long term and high antioxidant activity prepared from eugenol and lipoic acid showed good tissue repair and regeneration for burns and trauma.To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above.The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry Full Article
prep 'You can't prepare to jump off a building' By www.rediff.com Published On :: Tue, 23 May 2023 15:29:01 +0530 'We are getting a show to do stuff like jumping off a helicopter.''Even if you pay, you won't get to do these things.' Full Article
prep Optimization of preparation conditions and design of device configurations for Cu3AsS4 solar cells: a combined study of first-principles calculations and SCAPS-1D device simulations By pubs.rsc.org Published On :: Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2024, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D4CP03392B, PaperYi Huang, Changqing Lin, Yang Xue, Bingyuan Huang, Dan HuangFormer studies have investigated the band structure and optoelectronic properties of Cu3AsS4 and suggested that it is a promising photovoltaic (PV) absorber. However, its power conversion efficiency (PCE) from experiments...The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry Full Article
prep Apps to help you prepare for exams By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 17:00:00 +0530 Full Article Education Plus
prep Design and synthesis of core shells HZSM-5@MCM-41 with variable acidity and mesoporosity for lignin-catalyzed fast pyrolysis to prepare aromatics By pubs.rsc.org Published On :: New J. Chem., 2024, 48,7235-7243DOI: 10.1039/D4NJ00530A, PaperYiwen Dai, Bin Guan, Xingxiang Wang, Jiaqi Liu, Zehua Huang, Bin Dai, Jichang Liu, Jiangbing LiIn this study, a uniform micro/mesoporous core–shell composite HZSM-@MCM-41 comprising zeolite was successfully prepared by coating mesoporous MCM-41 shells on nanosized ZSM-5 cores using a two-step hydrothermal method.The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry Full Article
prep Preparation of hydrogels with self-reinforced mechanical properties using ball-milled microcrystalline cellulose and regenerated cellulose from deep eutectic solvent By pubs.rsc.org Published On :: New J. Chem., 2024, 48,7405-7412DOI: 10.1039/D4NJ00622D, PaperYi Zhang, Yingming Zhu, Kejing Wu, Yingying Liu, Houfang Lu, Bin LiangCholine chloride–lactic acid deep eutectic solvent assisted by ball milling effectively dissolved microcrystalline cellulose. Regenerated cellulose was used to prepare novel cellulose hydrogel with self-reinforced mechanical properties.The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry Full Article
prep Ambient temperature-prepared BiOBr-supported zero-pretreatment coal gasification fine slag for organic pollutant removal By pubs.rsc.org Published On :: New J. Chem., 2024, 48,7256-7264DOI: 10.1039/D3NJ05906E, PaperHele Hua, Jing Yang, Rui Li, Yunfang Wang, Caimei Fan, Jianxin Liu, Yawen WangThe BiOBr/CGFS photocatalysts were synthesized at ambient temperature by a simple hydrolysis method with zero pre-treatment of CGFS. CGFS led to the improvement of the quantum efficiency of BiOBr and further promoted the photocatalytic performance.The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry Full Article
prep Preparation of UV-responsive hydrogels based on nanocellulose and their utilization in fungicide delivery By pubs.rsc.org Published On :: Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2024, 11,1442-1451DOI: 10.1039/D3EN00910F, PaperChaoqun You, Xinyue Ji, Hanchen Lin, Ning Ma, Wei Wei, Lingfeng Long, Like Ning, Fei WangA stimuli-responsive hydrogel for fungicide delivery based on UV-sensitive molecular (AZO)-conjunct CNCs is successfully prepared.The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry Full Article
prep TiO2−x prepared by radio-frequency thermal plasma: optical switching of hydrophilicity and hydrophobicity used in the efficient recovery of photocatalysts By pubs.rsc.org Published On :: Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2024, 11,1693-1700DOI: 10.1039/D4EN00033A, PaperChang Liu, Huacheng Jin, Zongxian Yang, Yuge Ouyang, Fei Ding, Baoqiang Li, Fangli YuanA TiO2−x catalyst synthesized using radio-frequency thermal plasma can switch between hydrophilic and hydrophobic properties. Its dispersion and agglomeration can thus be adjusted so that it is dispersed evenly or forms floating balls, which is convenient for recycling.The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry Full Article
prep Enhanced photocatalytic activity of single-atom Au1/TiO2 catalysts prepared using cold plasma By pubs.rsc.org Published On :: CrystEngComm, 2024, 26,2103-2111DOI: 10.1039/D4CE00171K, PaperZikun Yang, Jingxuan Zheng, Mengge Shi, Zhao WangSingle-atom Au1/TiO2-DBD catalysts were synthesised using DBD plasma and glow plasma, and the synergistic effect of single-atom Au and oxygen vacancies improved the degradation performance.The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry Full Article
prep Govt prepares draft to use Middleware for broadcasting TV channel content without Internet By www.thehindubusinessline.com Published On :: Tue, 13 Dec 2022 20:04:27 +0530 Middleware can be used to deliver broadcast content to portable devices through Wireless LAN/WiFi Full Article News
prep Chandrababu Naidu launches free gas scheme; prepares tea in beneficiary's house By www.newkerala.com Published On :: Sat, 02 Nov 2024 02:42:02 +0530 Full Article
prep Devotee wants SOP for preparation of appam and aravana prasadam at Sabarimala By www.newkerala.com Published On :: Sat, 02 Nov 2024 22:40:03 +0530 Full Article
prep Click synthesis of dendronized malonates for the preparation of amphiphilic dendro[60]fullerenes By pubs.rsc.org Published On :: Org. Biomol. Chem., 2024, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/D3OB01986A, PaperCarlos Cruz-Hernández, Perla Y. López-Camacho, Gustavo Basurto-Islas, Aaron Rojas, Patricia Guadarrama, Melchor Martínez-HerreraClick chemistry is a valuable methodology for obtaining dendronized malonate derivatives to derivatize C60 using the Bingel–Hirsch reaction.To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above.The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry Full Article
prep Sustainable preparation of 2-acylbenzothiazoles under the cooperation of ionic liquids and microwave irradiation By pubs.rsc.org Published On :: Org. Biomol. Chem., 2024, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/D4OB00315B, PaperShoushun Wang, Mengjie Liu, Yiyuan Yue, Xiude Hu, Yalin Zhang, Guodong Shen, Ruiguo Dong, Lilong Shi, Bing Yu, Xianqiang HuangA series of 2-acylbenzothiazole derivatives were sustainably synthesized for the first time under the cooperation of ionic liquids and microwave irradiation, metal- and extra-additives-free conditions.To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above.The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry Full Article
prep Jio’s Diwali Dhamaka plan offers year-long prepaid plan for ₹3,599 By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 13:14:07 +0530 Jio is offering a prepaid plan of 2.5 GB of data per day for an entire year, priced at₹3,599, as part of a Diwali offer Full Article Technology
prep Role of soft skills in industrial and product design career success: Preparing next generation of designers By www.dnaindia.com Published On :: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 07:07:00 GMT Kushal Karwa, a thought leader in design education, emphasizes the need for integrating soft skills training into career preparation programs to help young designers thrive in real-world environments. Full Article Technology
prep Officers prepare for livestock census in India, will use mobile app for first time By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 11:06:19 +0530 The data will be used for formulating policies and programmes for farmers and the dairy sector Full Article Agri-Business
prep A Chinese-English dictionary : Hakka-dialect as spoken in Kwang-tung province / prepared by D. MacIver ; revised and rearranged with many additional terms and phrases by M.C. Mackenzie, E.P. Mission, Wu-king-fu. By encore.st-andrews.ac.uk Published On :: Taiwan : SMC Publishing Inc., 1991. Full Article
prep Troia-Wilusa : general background and a guided tour (including the information panels at the site) / prepared by the director of the excavations Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Manfred O. Korfmann, Prof. Dr. Dietrich P. Mannsperger ; English translation by Jean D. Car By encore.st-andrews.ac.uk Published On :: [İstanbul] : Ege Yayınları, 2005. Full Article
prep Preparation of organic compound/g-C3N4 composites and their applications in photocatalysis By pubs.rsc.org Published On :: Mater. Chem. Front., 2024, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/D4QM00567H, Review ArticleJun Wu, Xingchen Ding, Xiashi ZhuThis review mainly summarises the progress in the preparation methods of organic compound/g-C3N4. Various materials such as different types of organic compound/g-C3N4 composites and their related energy and environmental applications are discussed.To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above.The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry Full Article
prep Preprints in Biomedicine | WIRED Brand Lab By www.wired.com Published On :: Tue, 02 Nov 2021 12:00:00 +0000 Produced by WIRED Brand Lab for CZI | Dr. Martin Chalfie and Dr. Akiko Iwasaki, two esteemed scientific researchers, explore the conversation around preprints through the lens of their own research, and through the story behind the development of the COVID-19 vaccines. The conversation around preprints is one of the most exciting topics in the scientific community, rising to fever pitch during the development of the COVID-19 vaccine. It questions the foundational tradition of peer reviewed publishing by championing the considerable advantages of leveraging preprints to broaden access, speed, and innovation, especially on matters of urgency. Learn more about preprints for biomedicine at: http://czi.co/openscience Full Article
prep Facile preparation of Hf3N4 thin films directly used as electrodes for lithium-ion storage By pubs.rsc.org Published On :: Nanoscale Horiz., 2024, 9,2031-2041DOI: 10.1039/D4NH00406J, CommunicationZhengguang Shi, Geng Yu, Jing Li, Zhenggang Jia, Xuexi Zhang, Cheng-Te Lin, Qianru Lin, Zhaoyu Chen, Hsu-Sheng TsaiTransition-metal nitride thin-film electrodes are potential electrode materials for all-solid-state thin-film lithium-ion batteries.The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry Full Article
prep A universal synthetic method for preparing nanoassemblies of quantum dots and organic molecules By pubs.rsc.org Published On :: Nanoscale Horiz., 2024, 9,1853-1854DOI: 10.1039/D4NH90063D, EditorialChao WangThis article highlights the recent work of Biju, Takano et al. (Nanoscale Horiz., 2024, 9, 1128–1136, https://doi.org/10.1039/D4NH00134F) on using a unique bio-catalytic nanoparticle shaping method for preparing mesoscopic particles.The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry Full Article
prep REPL to prepare GIS-based master plan for 12 ULBs of Tamil Nadu By www.thehindubusinessline.com Published On :: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 21:02:11 +0530 REPL will conduct a thorough assessment of the existing conditions and identify development trends at the regional level Full Article National
prep A Pb-free Sn–Bi alloy mount preparation method for secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) analyses By pubs.rsc.org Published On :: J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2024, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/D4JA00252K, Technical NoteWan-Feng Zhang, Qing Yang, Xiao-Ping Xia, De-Wen Zheng, Ze-Xian Cui, Yan-Qiang Zhang, Yi-Gang XuSample preparation is a critical step for in situ analysis. In this study, we proposed an easy-to-prepare Pb-free alloy for sample mount preparation, which is suitable for SIMS water content and isotope analyses.To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above.The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry Full Article
prep Trace element determination by femtosecond LA-ICP-MS in 10 mg extraterrestrial geological samples prepared as lithium borate glasses By pubs.rsc.org Published On :: J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2024, 39,2728-2736DOI: 10.1039/D4JA00275J, PaperYan-Hong Liu, Ding-Shuai Xue, Wen-Jun Li, Zhong-Qiang Wang, Yan Liang, Shun Guo, Bo WanThis method involves precise trace element determination in X-ray fluorescence (XRF) lithium borate glass prepared from 10 mg extraterrestrial geological samples using femtosecond LA-ICP-MS.The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry Full Article
prep Dual solar-driven hydrogen evolution and alcohol oxidation with CdS quantum dot-sensitized photocatalysts prepared by the SILAR methodology By pubs.rsc.org Published On :: J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, 12,30885-30891DOI: 10.1039/D4TA03559C, PaperVasilis Nikolaou, Deborah Romito, Clément Maheu, Jonathan Hamon, Eric Gautron, Florian Massuyeau, Pierre-Emmanuel Petit, Stéphane Jobic, Fabrice OdobelThe first use of the successive ionic layer adsorption and reaction (SILAR) method to grow CdS quantum dots on TiO2 nanoparticles, achieving efficient photocatalytic alcohol oxidation and H2 evolution without catalysts or sacrificial donors.The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry Full Article
prep Get together Preparation – How to Get the Most Out of The Board Meetings By catswhocode.com Published On :: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 When you meet up with your plank, you are using the vital and seasoned strategic advice of achieved leaders. http://boardroomsystems.net/how-to-take-notes-at-a-board-meeting Often , this can feel like a big responsibility. However by being refined in your getting together with preparations, it will be possible to maximize the time available with these accomplished people. Begin by clearly […] Full Article Blog
prep Melt-preparation of organic–inorganic Mn-based halide transparent ceramic scintillators for high-resolution X-ray imaging By pubs.rsc.org Published On :: J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17411-17418DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03459G, PaperZhi-Zhong Zhang, Zi-Lin He, Qing-Peng Peng, Jing-Hua Chen, Bang Lan, Dai-Bin KuangA large size TBP2MnBr4 transparent ceramic is prepared by the melt processing method, which shows a high transmittance of >80% in the wavelength range of 350 nm to 800 nm, for realizing a high-resolution (16 lp mm−1) X-ray imaging.The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry Full Article
prep In situ preparation of highly luminescent Sb3+/Mn2+ co-doped Cs2KInCl6 lead-free double perovskites in a PVDF matrix and application to white light emitting diodes and anti-counterfeiting By pubs.rsc.org Published On :: J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17458-17468DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03527E, PaperYongrun Dong, Wen Li, Tao Huang, Shuaigang Ge, Linghang Kong, Chuang Ning, Zequan Li, Wei Gao, Bingsuo ZouA strategy for in situ preparation of lead-free double perovskite-based polymer composite film with large area and high efficiency white light emission and its applications.The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry Full Article
prep Enhanced electrical properties of lead-free sodium potassium niobate piezoelectric ceramics prepared via cold sintering assisted sintering By pubs.rsc.org Published On :: J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/D4TC04031G, PaperYao Huang, Xinyue Song, Renbing Sun, Hai Jiang, Peng Du, Laihui LuoThe CSAS method can increase the density of the ceramics and reduce the volatilization of the A-site elements, thus changing the phase structure of the ceramics and making them high piezoelectric properties.To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above.The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry Full Article
prep To Ignite a Personalization Practice, Run this Prepersonalization Workshop By Published On :: 2024-04-16T19:51:34+00:00 Picture this. You’ve joined a squad at your company that’s designing new product features with an emphasis on automation or AI. Or your company has just implemented a personalization engine. Either way, you’re designing with data. Now what? When it comes to designing for personalization, there are many cautionary tales, no overnight successes, and few guides for the perplexed. Between the fantasy of getting it right and the fear of it going wrong—like when we encounter “persofails” in the vein of a company repeatedly imploring everyday consumers to buy additional toilet seats—the personalization gap is real. It’s an especially confounding place to be a digital professional without a map, a compass, or a plan. For those of you venturing into personalization, there’s no Lonely Planet and few tour guides because effective personalization is so specific to each organization’s talent, technology, and market position. But you can ensure that your team has packed its bags sensibly. Designing for personalization makes for strange bedfellows. A savvy art-installation satire on the challenges of humane design in the era of the algorithm. Credit: Signs of the Times, Scott Kelly and Ben Polkinghome. There’s a DIY formula to increase your chances for success. At minimum, you’ll defuse your boss’s irrational exuberance. Before the party you’ll need to effectively prepare. We call it prepersonalization. Behind the music Consider Spotify’s DJ feature, which debuted this past year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok-aNnc0Dko We’re used to seeing the polished final result of a personalization feature. Before the year-end award, the making-of backstory, or the behind-the-scenes victory lap, a personalized feature had to be conceived, budgeted, and prioritized. Before any personalization feature goes live in your product or service, it lives amid a backlog of worthy ideas for expressing customer experiences more dynamically. So how do you know where to place your personalization bets? How do you design consistent interactions that won’t trip up users or—worse—breed mistrust? We’ve found that for many budgeted programs to justify their ongoing investments, they first needed one or more workshops to convene key stakeholders and internal customers of the technology. Make yours count. From Big Tech to fledgling startups, we’ve seen the same evolution up close with our clients. In our experiences with working on small and large personalization efforts, a program’s ultimate track record—and its ability to weather tough questions, work steadily toward shared answers, and organize its design and technology efforts—turns on how effectively these prepersonalization activities play out. Time and again, we’ve seen effective workshops separate future success stories from unsuccessful efforts, saving countless time, resources, and collective well-being in the process. A personalization practice involves a multiyear effort of testing and feature development. It’s not a switch-flip moment in your tech stack. It’s best managed as a backlog that often evolves through three steps: customer experience optimization (CXO, also known as A/B testing or experimentation) always-on automations (whether rules-based or machine-generated) mature features or standalone product development (such as Spotify’s DJ experience) This is why we created our progressive personalization framework and why we’re field-testing an accompanying deck of cards: we believe that there’s a base grammar, a set of “nouns and verbs” that your organization can use to design experiences that are customized, personalized, or automated. You won’t need these cards. But we strongly recommend that you create something similar, whether that might be digital or physical. Set your kitchen timer How long does it take to cook up a prepersonalization workshop? The surrounding assessment activities that we recommend including can (and often do) span weeks. For the core workshop, we recommend aiming for two to three days. Here’s a summary of our broader approach along with details on the essential first-day activities. The full arc of the wider workshop is threefold: Kickstart: This sets the terms of engagement as you focus on the opportunity as well as the readiness and drive of your team and your leadership. . Plan your work: This is the heart of the card-based workshop activities where you specify a plan of attack and the scope of work. Work your plan: This phase is all about creating a competitive environment for team participants to individually pitch their own pilots that each contain a proof-of-concept project, its business case, and its operating model. Give yourself at least a day, split into two large time blocks, to power through a concentrated version of those first two phases. Kickstart: Whet your appetite We call the first lesson the “landscape of connected experience.” It explores the personalization possibilities in your organization. A connected experience, in our parlance, is any UX requiring the orchestration of multiple systems of record on the backend. This could be a content-management system combined with a marketing-automation platform. It could be a digital-asset manager combined with a customer-data platform. Spark conversation by naming consumer examples and business-to-business examples of connected experience interactions that you admire, find familiar, or even dislike. This should cover a representative range of personalization patterns, including automated app-based interactions (such as onboarding sequences or wizards), notifications, and recommenders. We have a catalog of these in the cards. Here’s a list of 142 different interactions to jog your thinking. This is all about setting the table. What are the possible paths for the practice in your organization? If you want a broader view, here’s a long-form primer and a strategic framework. Assess each example that you discuss for its complexity and the level of effort that you estimate that it would take for your team to deliver that feature (or something similar). In our cards, we divide connected experiences into five levels: functions, features, experiences, complete products, and portfolios. Size your own build here. This will help to focus the conversation on the merits of ongoing investment as well as the gap between what you deliver today and what you want to deliver in the future. Next, have your team plot each idea on the following 2×2 grid, which lays out the four enduring arguments for a personalized experience. This is critical because it emphasizes how personalization can not only help your external customers but also affect your own ways of working. It’s also a reminder (which is why we used the word argument earlier) of the broader effort beyond these tactical interventions. Getting intentional about the desired outcomes is an important component to a large-scale personalization program. Credit: Bucket Studio. Each team member should vote on where they see your product or service putting its emphasis. Naturally, you can’t prioritize all of them. The intention here is to flesh out how different departments may view their own upsides to the effort, which can vary from one to the next. Documenting your desired outcomes lets you know how the team internally aligns across representatives from different departments or functional areas. The third and final kickstart activity is about naming your personalization gap. Is your customer journey well documented? Will data and privacy compliance be too big of a challenge? Do you have content metadata needs that you have to address? (We’re pretty sure that you do: it’s just a matter of recognizing the relative size of that need and its remedy.) In our cards, we’ve noted a number of program risks, including common team dispositions. Our Detractor card, for example, lists six stakeholder behaviors that hinder progress. Effectively collaborating and managing expectations is critical to your success. Consider the potential barriers to your future progress. Press the participants to name specific steps to overcome or mitigate those barriers in your organization. As studies have shown, personalization efforts face many common barriers. The largest management consultancies have established practice areas in personalization, and they regularly research program risks and challenges. Credit: Boston Consulting Group. At this point, you’ve hopefully discussed sample interactions, emphasized a key area of benefit, and flagged key gaps? Good—you’re ready to continue. Hit that test kitchen Next, let’s look at what you’ll need to bring your personalization recipes to life. Personalization engines, which are robust software suites for automating and expressing dynamic content, can intimidate new customers. Their capabilities are sweeping and powerful, and they present broad options for how your organization can conduct its activities. This presents the question: Where do you begin when you’re configuring a connected experience? What’s important here is to avoid treating the installed software like it were a dream kitchen from some fantasy remodeling project (as one of our client executives memorably put it). These software engines are more like test kitchens where your team can begin devising, tasting, and refining the snacks and meals that will become a part of your personalization program’s regularly evolving menu. Progressive personalization, a framework for designing connected experiences. Credit: Bucket Studio and Colin Eagan. The ultimate menu of the prioritized backlog will come together over the course of the workshop. And creating “dishes” is the way that you’ll have individual team stakeholders construct personalized interactions that serve their needs or the needs of others. The dishes will come from recipes, and those recipes have set ingredients. In the same way that ingredients form a recipe, you can also create cards to break down a personalized interaction into its constituent parts. Credit: Bucket Studio and Colin Eagan. Verify your ingredients Like a good product manager, you’ll make sure—andyou’ll validate with the right stakeholders present—that you have all the ingredients on hand to cook up your desired interaction (or that you can work out what needs to be added to your pantry). These ingredients include the audience that you’re targeting, content and design elements, the context for the interaction, and your measure for how it’ll come together. This isn’t just about discovering requirements. Documenting your personalizations as a series of if-then statements lets the team: compare findings toward a unified approach for developing features, not unlike when artists paint with the same palette; specify a consistent set of interactions that users find uniform or familiar; and develop parity across performance measurements and key performance indicators too. This helps you streamline your designs and your technical efforts while you deliver a shared palette of core motifs of your personalized or automated experience. Compose your recipe What ingredients are important to you? Think of a who-what-when-why construct: Who are your key audience segments or groups? What kind of content will you give them, in what design elements, and under what circumstances? And for which business and user benefits? We first developed these cards and card categories five years ago. We regularly play-test their fit with conference audiences and clients. And we still encounter new possibilities. But they all follow an underlying who-what-when-why logic.Here are three examples for a subscription-based reading app, which you can generally follow along with right to left in the cards in the accompanying photo below. Nurture personalization: When a guest or an unknown visitor interacts with a product title, a banner or alert bar appears that makes it easier for them to encounter a related title they may want to read, saving them time. Welcome automation: When there’s a newly registered user, an email is generated to call out the breadth of the content catalog and to make them a happier subscriber. Winback automation: Before their subscription lapses or after a recent failed renewal, a user is sent an email that gives them a promotional offer to suggest that they reconsider renewing or to remind them to renew. A “nurture” automation may trigger a banner or alert box that promotes content that makes it easier for users to complete a common task, based on behavioral profiling of two user types. Credit: Bucket Studio. A “welcome” automation may be triggered for any user that sends an email to help familiarize them with the breadth of a content library, and this email ideally helps them consider selecting various titles (no matter how much time they devote to reviewing the email’s content itself). Credit: Bucket Studio. A “winback” automation may be triggered for a specific group, such as users with recently failed credit-card transactions or users at risk of churning out of active usage, that present them with a specific offer to mitigate near-future inactivity. Credit: Bucket Studio. A useful preworkshop activity may be to think through a first draft of what these cards might be for your organization, although we’ve also found that this process sometimes flows best through cocreating the recipes themselves. Start with a set of blank cards, and begin labeling and grouping them through the design process, eventually distilling them to a refined subset of highly useful candidate cards. You can think of the later stages of the workshop as moving from recipes toward a cookbook in focus—like a more nuanced customer-journey mapping. Individual “cooks” will pitch their recipes to the team, using a common jobs-to-be-done format so that measurability and results are baked in, and from there, the resulting collection will be prioritized for finished design and delivery to production. Better kitchens require better architecture Simplifying a customer experience is a complicated effort for those who are inside delivering it. Beware anyone who says otherwise. With that being said, “Complicated problems can be hard to solve, but they are addressable with rules and recipes.” When personalization becomes a laugh line, it’s because a team is overfitting: they aren’t designing with their best data. Like a sparse pantry, every organization has metadata debt to go along with its technical debt, and this creates a drag on personalization effectiveness. Your AI’s output quality, for example, is indeed limited by your IA. Spotify’s poster-child prowess today was unfathomable before they acquired a seemingly modest metadata startup that now powers its underlying information architecture. You can definitely stand the heat… Personalization technology opens a doorway into a confounding ocean of possible designs. Only a disciplined and highly collaborative approach will bring about the necessary focus and intention to succeed. So banish the dream kitchen. Instead, hit the test kitchen to save time, preserve job satisfaction and security, and safely dispense with the fanciful ideas that originate upstairs of the doers in your organization. There are meals to serve and mouths to feed. This workshop framework gives you a fighting shot at lasting success as well as sound beginnings. Wiring up your information layer isn’t an overnight affair. But if you use the same cookbook and shared recipes, you’ll have solid footing for success. We designed these activities to make your organization’s needs concrete and clear, long before the hazards pile up. While there are associated costs toward investing in this kind of technology and product design, your ability to size up and confront your unique situation and your digital capabilities is time well spent. Don’t squander it. The proof, as they say, is in the pudding. Full Article
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