Lesson 2- Interaction Design Flashcards
is the creation of a dialogue between a person and a product, system, or service.
Interaction Design
is the holistic journey users traverse as they use a product.
User Experience (UX)
Good Design should be… (7)
- Valuable
- Useful
- Usable
- Findable
- Credible
- Desirable
- Accessible
encompasses the process of enhancing user satisfaction by improving the usability, accessibility, and overall pleasure derived from interacting with a product or service.
User Experience design
is the foundation of effective UX design.
User-centered design
Understanding the user begins with research.
Conducting user research through methods such as surveys, interviews, and usability testing allows designers to gain valuable insights into the target audience.
Gaining User Insights
Every user has unique needs, and catering to these needs is crucial for a successful UX design.
Tailoring Experiences to User Needs
A deep understanding of the user allows designers to optimize the interface’s usability, making it intuitive, efficient, and easy to navigate.
Improving Usability and Accessibility
Beyond functionality, successful UX design taps into users’ emotions.
Enhancing Emotional Connections
Understanding the user is an ongoing process throughout the design journey.
Iterative Design and Continuous Improvement
is the methodological approach that designers use to create solutions centered on users’ needs, aims and behavior when they interact with products.
Interaction Design
5 Key Stages of the Interaction Design Process
- Understand user needs and wants
- Analyze user research findings
- Design a potential solution
- Create prototypes from designs
- Implement and deploy the final design
This initial phase involves researching and understanding users’ needs, goals, and contexts of use
Understand user needs and wants
Two Useful research (2):
- Contextual inquiry
- User interviews and surveys:
This approach allows designers to immerse themselves in the user’s environment.
Contextual inquiry
These exercises help designers gather direct insights from their target audience.
User interviews and surveys
Designers define the interaction problem they aim to solve based on the insights they’ve gathered.
Analyze user research finding
2 ways of Analyze and Organize
- Personas!!!
- Journey Mapping
These are created based on research and should be as detailed as possible.
Personas
PERSONAAAUURRGHHHHS!!!
Developing journey maps helps designers visualize a user’s interactions with a product.
Journey Mapping
In this phase, designers brainstorm, sketch and design potential solutions.
Design a potential solution
2 approaches to Designing:
- Sketching
- Storyboarding
Rapid, freehand drawing helps designers quickly visualize ideas, layout arrangements, and user interfaces.
Sketching
This involves creating a series of drawings to depict the user journey or specific interactions with a product.
Storyboarding
is an extension of the design phase, where ideas are transformed into tangible artifacts that can be tested and evaluated.
Create prototypes from designs
2 types of Prototypes:
- Low-fidelity prototyping
- High-fidelity prototyping
Paper prototypes or basic digital mockups can demonstrate ideas and design quickly and easily.
Low-fidelity prototyping
For a deeper test of interactions, designers can create high-fidelity prototypes using tools like Sketch or Figma.
High-fidelity prototyping
Once the design has been refined through multiple iterations of testing and feedback, it moves into implementation, where developers build the interaction design into the product.
Implement and deploy the final design
General Flow of Interaction Design Process (5)
STAGES MUST BE IN ORDER
- Stage 1- What User Needs/ Wants
- Stage 2- Analysis
- Stage 3- Design
- Stage 4- Prototype
- Stage 5- Implement and Design
In summary, what is the difference of UI and UX?
UI is what the user sees and interacts within the website/app like buttons, navigation and layout.
UX is the overall experience of using the website/app.
