Midterm Flashcards
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Interaction Design
A systematic way to go about developing usable interactice products and interfaces. As well as constructing usable interactice artifacts
Systematic Design
Follows a definined processes and principles established by decades of development
Unsystematic Design
Relies on your intuition talent and luck
Interaction Designers
people involved in the design of all the interactice aspects of a product
Usability engineers
People who focus on evaluating products, using usability methods and principles
Web Designers
People who develop and create the visual design of websites such as layouts, navigation schemes
Information Architects
people who come up with ideas of how to structure information such as corparate webbsites
User Experience Designers (UX)
People who do all the above who may also carry out field studies to inform the design of products how they are used appropriated etc.
5 things in Interactive Design
Identify, Develop, Build, Evaluate, Process
Identify in Interactive Design
The needs and establishing requirements functional and usability goals experience goals context and user characteristics
Build in Interactive Design
Create interactive prototypes that can be communicated and assessed
Evaluate in Interactive Design
See what is being built throughtout the process and the user experience it offers
Process in Interactive Design
Interative and user centered
What do we need to know about the user?
Their skills, contect, functional/usability goals and Quality when interacting with the product
