Interaction Design

Interaction design

Kajsa Sahlström Gren 12-03-06

Every day interactions…

We need to understand it

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Not feel stupid, irritated or discomforted

Todays flow…

A breif history

It works!

It’s cool!

It’s smart!

1990 2000 2012

around1980

Bill MoggridgeID two, IDEO

Bill VerplankID two, IDEO

What is ID?

• Help people reach their goals

• Solve problems

• Create interaction between humans

A nice mix

Usability(getting a thing done)

VS

User-experience(focuses on feelings, changes over time)

Good Interaction DesignIs recognised like this:

• Trustworthy• Appropriate• Smart• Responsive• Clever• Ludic• Pleasurable

4 approaches• User-centered Design (user knows best, goals)

• Activity-centered Design (users activities, behavior)

• Systems Design (outlines components of the system)

• Genius Design (designer knows best)

Element of interaction design

Motion Space Time Appearance Texture Sound

Also think about

Persona Context Physical Social

Temporal Infrastructural Task System

Experience

Laws and principles

Moore’s Law- in two more years our device will be faster, smaller and still powerfull

Fitt’s Law- how long it takes to move from a starting point to a final position

Hick’s Law- time it takes for the user to make a decision from possible choices

Magic number 7- human brain best remebers chunks of info in 7

Testler’s Law- a point where you can’t simplify any longer

Poka-Yoke principle- help the user not to make a misstake

Interviews

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Personas

Field studies

Observations

Design Research

Cultural probes

Storyoards

Sketching

Prototypes

User-tests

Methods

Tools

Jeff Hawkins, Palm Pilot

Future?

Intelligent agents?

Internet of things?

Wearables?

Robots?

Ubiquitous computing?

Resources

• Designing Interactions, Bill Moggridge

• Designing for interaction, Dan Saffer

• About Face, Alan Cooper

• The inmates are running the asylum,

Alan Cooper

• Interaction Design,

Yvonne Rogers, Helen Sharp, Jennifer Preece