The introduction from a whole day workshop on Interfaces & Interactions at Central St Martins for the second year of the Product Design course

1. Interfaces & Interactions

2. What is an interface?

3. What is an interface?
A point where two systems,
subjects or organizations meet &
interact

4. Button
Switch
Fabric
The lid of a jar
A straw in a glass
A plant
Your skin
...

5. Interface Design
How the user faces the system
and how the system faces the
user

6. Haptics & Tactile Screens

8. Mix it up!

9. Wearable Interfaces

11. Surroundings as interfaces

12. Invent something new

13. Invisible Interfaces

14. Interface ≠ Screen

15. What is an interaction?

16. What is an interaction?
A reciprocal action or influence.
How the two systems affect each
other.

17. The swipe of your finger
The blink of your eye
Making a noise
The beat of your heart
Jumping
Drawing
Eating
...

18. Interaction Design
“Designing interactive digital
products, environments, systems,
and services.”
- Bill Moggridge

19. Digital = Physical

20. Touch someone

21. Think something

22. Do something you always do

23. Augment something

24. Disrupt something

26. “Few people think about it or are
aware of it. But there is nothing
made by human beings that does
not involve a design decision
somewhere.”
- Bill Moggridge

27. @jessibaker

28. I design interactions with
technology

29. Often I design user experiences
for screens

30. UX (User Experience) Design

31. Toolbox = Code

32. But I prefer to design for a post
screen world...

33. Often I design for user
experiences for screens
UX
Physical interactions feel more
natural

35. Often I design for user
experiences for screens
UX
A product design foundation helps design the
UX of the physical digital world

36. The recent past & present of
Interfaces & Interactions

37. Physical >> Digital

38. Map books >> Google maps
Newspapers >> Twitter
Pen & Paper >> Evernote
Scrap book >> Pinterest
...

39. “In 2013, mobile phone will
overtake PC as the most common
web access device worldwide.”
- Gartner

40. The great
convergence...

41. Some things I don’t really miss...

42. Some I miss a bit

43. Some I miss a lot

44. Digital >> Physical

45. Connected devices

50. The future of Interfaces &
Interactions

51. Physical = Digital

52. An Internet of things

53. An Internet of things
Ubiquitous Computing
Ambient Intelligence
Pervasive Computing

54. Niche physical-ware

55. Things interact with each other,
not just with you

56. Note: Also need to design the moderators

57. It can be designed by you

58. Thanks!
@jessibaker

59. Credits
(6) Tactile interfaces by Disney
Research Lab
(7) “Plugg” is a prototype DAB radio
made by Skrekkøgle
(8) Dominic Wilcox Shoes
(9) Imogen Heap
(11) Disney Research Lab
(12) MIT Media Lab
(13) Leap Motion Controller
(20) Bare Conductive Ink
(21) MIT Media Lab
(22) Nike Fuel Band
(23) Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT
(24-5) Julius von Bismarck
(27-33) jessibaker.com
(34) Tom Evans
(35) jessibaker.com
(40) Apple
(41) The 80’s
(42) Mary Meeker
(43) Roberts
(46) Jawbone
(47) Square Payment system
(48) Nest
(49) Hue from Philips
(56) Star Wars
(57) Raspberry Pi
(58) Yeah, that’s me again...