Section 1-What Is ID?

Question 1

What are examples of poor Interaction Design?

Answer 1

• Trying to use self-check out at grocery store and it takes you a half hour
• Can’t get your car to tell you what’s wrong with it when it breaks down
• Struggle to synchronize your mobile phone to your computer

Question 2

Who named Interaction Design?

Answer 2

In 1990, Bill Moggridge, a principle at a design firm called IDEO

Question 3

What attitudes do designers have?

Answer 3

• Focus on the user
• Finding alternatives
• using ideation and prototyping
• Collaborating and addressing constraints
• Creating appropriate solutions
• drawing on wide range of influences
• Incorporating emotion

Question 4

What is Interaction Design?

Answer 4

• Art form

* facilitates interactions between humans through products and services

Question 5

In 1830 ______ invented a system where electromagnetic pulses were turned into coded language for communication.

Answer 5

Samuel Morse

Question 6

1940’s saw the invention of the first computational machines-the forerunners of the modern computer. Engineered to solve computational problems.

                             True/False

Answer 6

True

Question 7

In the 1960’s engineers began to focus on the human aspects of interacting with machines. Control panels, switches, and monitors were designed for human interaction.

                               True/False

Answer 7

True

Question 8

During the 1970’s, the command line interface was developed.

                              True/False

Answer 8

True

Question 9

Who in the 1980’s developed the first graphical user interfaces?

A. Microsoft
B. Apple
C. XEROX
D. Both Apple and XEROX

Answer 9

D. Both Apple and XEROX

Question 10

Why practice Interaction Design?

Answer 10

• Identifies and fixes problems with existing technologies
• Makes products and services useful, sensible, engaging, and fun (making world better place)
• Discovers new ways of interaction between humans and things

Question 11

What are the Examples of good Interaction Design?

Answer 11

• Become engrossed in a computer game
• Share photos on the web
• Text message a friend from your mobile phone
• Are treated quickly and well in an emergency room
• Post to your blog