During the design and testing phase of your conversational AI application, it can be difficult to foresee how it will behave or react to new inputs or logic.

Creating multiple dialogs, and variables, or integrating 3rd party APIs can mean the complexity of your solution can rapidly grow.

Designing your solution without real-time feedback and only being able to test at the end can be challenging. With limited flexibility, it can be hard to validate and debug your solution and you can often find yourself constantly saving and re-testing.

UI Builder contains a feature that reduces this overhead. It’s called the LG Editor. In this article, we introduce the LG Editor and how you can use it to optimize the design phase of your conversational AI application

What Is The LG Editor?

The LG Editor is a feature you can access directly in UI Builder. It contains a user interface and intelligent expression editor that lets you create, test, and preview expressions during the design phase of your conversational AI application.

You can use the LG Editor to:

• Evaluate how responses will look with rich elements such as media, lists and text styling
• Evaluate the output of adaptive expressions when working with API responses and application variables
• Evaluate how an Adaptive Card may look

The LG Editor reduces the development feedback loop during the creation or debugging phases of your conversational AI application.

Using The LG Editor