Tuesday, January 10, 2012

CHAPTER 1: What is Interaction Design?

Good Interaction Design:
            - ATM withdrawals w/ a few touches on screen
            - computer games
            - E-Shopping
            - social networking via mobile phone/tablets
            - cutting & pasting cells within a document

Poor Interaction Design:
            - self-checkout experience delayed    
- car breaks down w/ no way of knowing what’s wrong
- can’t sync songs to iPod
- difficulty using GPS voice recognition feature


INTERACTION DESIGN – connecting people through the products
            *BILL MOGGRIDGE* - industrial designer – coined term in 1990
                        -Native Americans & tribes before them created Interactive Design
                                    - smoke signals            - cairns

“Interaction design is about behavior, and behavior is much harder to understand than appearance.”

Interaction – transaction between two or more entities – exchanging info, goods, or services

3 WAYS OF LOOKING AT INTERACTION DESIGN
            1. Technology-centered view – useful & pleasurable to use
2. Behaviorist view – focuses on functionality & feedback: how products behave     
    and provide feedback based on what the people engaged w/ them are doing.
3. Social Interaction Design view – facilitates communication between humans
through products. i.e. one-to-one phone call, one-to-many blog post, many-to-many stock market.

“Design is to design a design to produce a design”

Designers focus on users, find & use different methodologies, use ideas & prototypes, collaborate, become inspired & influenced, address problems & constraints, CREATE SOLUTIONS, & incorporate feelings/emotions.

Consumers had to adjust to the advancement of technology. As time progressed, we found and are still finding new uses for technology [old & new].

Interaction Design was created to deter away from any annoyances and inconveniences from poorly designed products. ID ensures that products are useful, usable, engaging, & enjoyable. ID also created new forms of interaction – social networks, Internet browsers, blogging, gaming, etc.

No comments:

Post a Comment