2016 Tech Impact Awards: User Interface

WINNER:Amazon.comSeattle | Employees: 245,200 (worldwide)It might be called Echo, but its voice is named Alexa. The smooth-talking avatar not only makes Amazons innovative web-connected, cylinder-shaped speaker easy to control, she even tells jokes. And whats especially impressive about Alexa is her ability to understand voice commands from speakers with varying accents. The original inspiration for…