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Interaction Design Basic
Interaction Design Basic
Basics
Interaction Design Basics
• creating interventions in often complex situations using
technology of many kinds including PC software, the
web and physical devices.
• Design involves:
• achieving goals within constraints and trade-off between
these
• understanding the raw materials: computer and human –
accepting limitations of humans and of design.
• Interaction starts with getting to know the users and
their context
• Scenarios are rich design stories
• Users need to find their way around a system
• Iteration and prototypes
WHAT IS DESIGN?
• So what is design? A simple definition is: achieving
goals within constraints
• This does not capture everything about design, but
helps to focus us on certain things:
– Goals
– Constraints
• Of course, we cannot always achieve all our goals
within the constraints. So perhaps one of the most
important things about design is:
– Trade-off
The golden rule of design