Interaction Design – Week 1

Interactive Design is the creating of interactive products that connect user and to technology to information

Interactive Designers have 3 questions they have to answer:

1. How do you do?
2. How do you feel?
3. How do you know?

• Various disciplines and design practices contribute to interactive design. They each frame the tasks differently

Interactivity:

• relating to a program that responds to user activity
• working together so the total effect is greater than the sum

Common interactions throughout the day: face to face, online shopping, vending machine, phone call

• Different activities have different levels of engagement and abilities to react to us e.g. vending machine is less reactive and less engaging but a conversation is more reactive and more engaging
• Data -> Information -> Knowledge -> Wisdom

5 Key Design Areas in the field of Interaction Design

1. Interactivity
2. Information Architecture
3. Time and Motion
4. Narrative
5. Interface