Interaction Design? - created from Mind Map

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Relationships of ID & HCI

What to design? Good design/Bad design.

What is Interaction Design?

The process of interaction design

Usability goals

User experience goals

Design principles

Advantages of working in multidisciplinary teams

Disdvantages

Different backgrounds' experts are involved

More ideas & designs generated

difficult to communicate

progress forward the designs being create

Need to take into account:

Need to optimise the interactions users have with a product:

Good design:

Bad design:

Users

Activities that being carried out

Interaction that taking place

Flexibility

Based on how everyday objects behave

Easy, intuitive and a pleasure to use

Only requires one-step actions to perform core tasks

Useless

Pointleess

Thoughtless/user unfriendly

Ominous

Untrustworthy

The design of interactive products and services in which a designer’s focus goes beyond the item in development to include the way users will interact with it.

Establishing requirements

Developing alternatives

Prototyping

Evaluating

Effective to use

Efficient to use

Safe to use

Have good utility

Easy to learn

Easy to remember how to use

Visibility

Feedback

Constraints

Consistency

Affordances