The first lesson of MIS 1013 Interaction Studies class is :
So, what is Interaction Design all about?
Below is some definition about Interaction Design :
1. Interaction design is "the practice of designing interactive digital products, environments, systems, and services". [ Source of reference : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interaction_design ]
2. Interaction design aims to define and facilitate interaction between human beings by means of a product or a service. It focuses on the possibilities to create and encourage behavior facilitating an exchange between people.
[ Source of reference : http://www.use-design.com/eng/design/interaction_design.php ]
3. "Interaction Design" refers to the shaping of interactive products and services with a specific focus on their use. (Lowgren. J,2011)
[ Source of reference : http://www.interaction-design.org/encyclopedia/interaction_design.html ]
Basically, interaction design is the interactivity and communication between anything and everything. As written in Interaction Studies - beyond human computer interaction by Jennifer Preece, the aim of interaction design is to redress this concern by bringing usability into the design process. In essence, it is about developing interactive products that are easy, effective, and enjoyable to use-from the users' perspective.
We faced a lots of interaction design products in our daily life. For example, we need to interact with the interface of the machine while we want to withdraw money from the ATM. Ultimately, it is all concern about HCI.
What is HCI ?
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HCI is the abbreviation of Human-Computer Interaction. As defined by Wikipedia, it is the study, planning and design of the interaction between people (users) and computers. It often regarded as the intersection of computer science, behavioral sciences, design and several other fields of study. As what I had learnt in Human Factors and Universal Usability class before, HCI is all about human in the end. It is a study of how human interact with the machine or so-called computer. And it is a study on the purpose to invent new products and reinvent existing products to fulfill user satisfactions and lastly to produce an user-centered design.
There are good and poor interaction design also.
But how do you differentiate a good and a poor interaction design? For me, I do think that a good interaction design must be user-friendly and user can interact with it without much problem. It should be help the user to do their task more efficiency and design in the priority of fit for human use and it is easy to operate.
Whereas, a poor interaction design make user confuse about how to operate it and make user doubt for it's function. A design that make user frustrated and let user thought that they are stupid and inefficient is considered as a poor interaction design too.
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