05 Interactions

Question 1

What is an interaction?

Answer 1

Intent + action + result
Intent to do something
action to make it happen
result is either successful or unsuccessful

Question 2

Whats an example of an interaction?

Answer 2

Intent: open gmail account
Action: complete form
Result: New gmail account

Question 3

Whats an example of a micro interaction?

Answer 3

Intent: Tell google my gender
Action: Select from drop downs
Result: Input field populated

Question 4

What are controls?

Answer 4

Controls are products that allow you to control a product

Question 5

What are some examples of digital controls?

Answer 5

tabs
radio buttons
check boxes
buttons
switches
input fields
drop downs

Question 6

What are rules?

Answer 6

Rules are made up of macro rules (or big rules) and micro rules (small rules within a macro rule)

Question 7

What does rules define?

Answer 7

How the interface works
What it can and cannot control
sucess or failure
What feedback is given
What data is used (and from where)
What data is produced (and where it goes)
What happens next

Question 8

What is a great way to express rules?

Answer 8

Use if/then statements

Question 9

What does the rules have to do for the user?

Answer 9

They must be easy to learn
must be easy to understand
must facilitate the overall flow

Question 10

An interaction can be defined as?

Answer 10

Intent + action + result

Question 11

What facilitates an interaction?

Answer 11

Feedback

Controls

Rules

Question 12

The requirement for a card number field to have a maximum of 16 digits is known as a?

Answer 12

micro rule

Question 13

What do interaction rules define?

Answer 13

Success state, failure state and feedback

What data is used and what data is produced

How an interface works and what it can and cannot do

Question 14

Strong feedback brings many benefits to users of an interface. What is a benefit of strong feedback?

Answer 14

Confirms an action has taken place

Question 15

What is a wireframe?

Answer 15

Wireframes should communicate how a system responds to actions, communicate results and fulfils intention

Question 16

How does the anatomy of an interaction work?

Answer 16

User has an INTENT and use the sytem through a CONTROL. User use this with an ACTION and this has RULES (twist righ= lock - twist left=unlock) this will give user FEEDBACK from the system wich in turn will give the user a RESULT. So INTENT - CONTROL - ACTION - RULES ø FEEDBACK - RESULT

Question 17

What is feedback?

Answer 17

Feedback communicates what is happening on your software. Feedback is also the voice of your product

Question 18

How often should you have user interactions?

Answer 18

Every micro interaction requires feedback to tell users that something has happened or is happening and their action has yielded a result.

Question 19

What does feedback do?

Answer 19

Confirms an action has taken place
Communicates results
Tells you what (if anything) you do next

Question 20

What is the best tool for communicating controls, rules and feedback

Answer 20

Wireframes