Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Interactive Design

"Interaction designers strive to create useful and usable products and services. Following the fundamental tenets of user-centered design, the practice of interaction design is grounded in an understanding of real users—their goals, tasks, experiences, needs, and wants. Approaching design from a user-centered perspective, while endeavoring to balance users' needs with business goals and technological capabilities, interaction designers provide solutions to complex design challenges, and define new and evolving interactive products and services.

The success of products in the marketplace depends on the design of high-quality, engaging interactive experiences. Good interaction design:

-effectively communicates a system's interactivity and functionality

-defines behaviors that communicate a system's responses to user interactions

-reveals both simple and complex workflows

-informs users about system state changes

-prevents user error"

http://www.ixda.org/about_interaction.php

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