Presentation about what interaction design is and what you do as an interaction designer.

1. Interaction design
Kajsa Sahlström Gren 12-03-06

2. Every day
interactions…

4. We need to understand it

5. Not feel stupid, irritated or
discomforted

7. Todays flow…

8. A breif history

9. 1990 2000 2012
It works! It’s cool! It’s smart!

10. 1980
around
Bill Moggridge
ID two, IDEO
Bill Verplank
ID two, IDEO

14. What is ID?
• Help people reach their goals
• Solve problems
• Create interaction
between humans

15. A nice mix

16. Usability
(getting a thing done)
VS
User-experience
(focuses on feelings, changes over time)

17. Good Interaction Design
Is recognised like this:
• Trustworthy
• Appropriate
• Smart
• Responsive
• Clever
• Ludic
• Pleasurable

18. 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)

19. Element of interaction design
Motion Space Time Appearance Texture Sound

20. Also think about
Persona Context Physical Social
Temporal Infrastructural Task System
Experience

21. Laws and principles

22. 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

23. 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

24. Cultural
Design Research probes
Methods
User-tests
Personas

25. Tools

26. Jeff Hawkins, Palm Pilot

27. Internet of things?
Intelligent agents?
Robots?
Future?
Ubiquitous computing?
Wearables?

28. 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