Interaction Design IxD

An Overview

 The field : Terms, influences, organizations, jobs.

 More on defining Interaction Design (IxD)?

 Principles  Design activity

The field : Terms, organizations, jobs.

Terms  Number of terms used emphasizing what is being designed, e.g.,          user interface design software design user-centered design product design usability, information architecture, human factors web design, User experience design (UX) 

IxD

is

umbrella term

covering all these aspects  fundamental to all disciplines, fields, and approaches concerned with researching and designing systems or products for people

IxD

is

umbrella term

Relationship between IxD, HCI and other fields  Academic disciplines contributing to IxD:  Psychology  Social Sciences  Computing Sciences  Engineering  Ergonomics  Information architecture  Human factors engineering

Relationship between IxD, HCI and other fields  Design practices contributing to IxD:  Graphic design  Product design  Artist-design  Industrial design  Film industry

Relationship between IxD, HCI and other fields  Interdisciplinary fields that ‘do’ IxD:  HCI  Human Factors  Cognitive Engineering  Cognitive Ergonomics  Computer Supported Co-operative Work  Information Systems 

It is everywhere

What do professionals do in the IxD business – Job titles?

             Interaction designers |Interactive Designer Information architect Usability engineers Web designers UI / UX Designer Web UI Developer User Experience Designer Usability/UI Designer Game Design User Researcher Analytics/Analyst User Interface Designer (UX / Human Factors) FRONT-END UI DEVELOPER/DESIGNER

UPA 2009 Survey

Positions and salaries

UPA 2009 Survey

usabilityprofessionals.org/usability_resources/surveys/2009salarysurvey_PUBLIC.pdf

UPA 2009 Survey

UPA 2009 Survey

UPA 2009 Survey

Jobs & Organizations • IXDA | http://www.ixda.org/ • UX Design | http://uxdesign.com/ • IxD Foundation | http://www.interaction-design.org

• UX Matter | http://www.uxmatters.com/index.php

• http://jobs.usernomics.com/a/jbb/find-jobs • http://usabilityprofessionals.org/usability_resources/jobs/

Organizations | Resources          http://interaction-design.org/ http://www.uxmatters.com/ http://www.ixda.org/ http://www.usabilityfirst.com/ http://www.usernomics.com/ http://www.hcibib.org/ http://usabilityprofessionals.org

http://www.ideo.com/ http://boxesandarrows.com

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Organizations | Resources  http://www.cooper.com/  http://www.jnd.org/dn.pubs.html

 http://www.boxesandarrows.com/  http://www.uxmag.com/  http://www.core77.com/reactor/

More on defining Interaction Design (IxD)?

Interaction Design Video  What is interaction Design?

 Mouse & Desktop:  Doug Engelbart  Tim Mott  Larry Tesler  My PC  Bill Atkinson

Defining the field  Two main views of IxD, coming out of different intellectual viewpoints but converging in practice.

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IxD as design discipline

, focused on digitally design materials.

IxD as an extension of HCI

, a field originating in experimental psychology and computer science.

Source: http://interaction-design.org/encyclopedia/interaction_design.html

IxD as a Design Discipline   Focus "shaping interactive products & services" as design work.

Shares the following characteristic:  Intends to improve situations by developing some sort of product or service.

  Considers

technical

,

aesthetic

and

ethical

qualities in design.

Involves developing an understanding of the task – the "problem".

 Entails thinking by  sketching,  building models, and  expressing potential ideas in other tangible forms .

IxD: As an Extension of HCI  Main concern in HCI is:  to assert instrumental qualities such as

usability

and

usefulness

of digital products and services.

 aimed at

work-related

situations.

or

task-oriented

use  typically focused on individual user and his/her goals.

IxD: As an Extension of HCI  Influential proponents Ben Shneiderman , Donald Norman , Stuart Card and Jenny Preece .

IxD: As an Extension of HCI  …a discipline concerned with the design, evaluation and implementation of interactive computing systems for human use and with major phenomena surrounding them. 

As defined by the Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction (SIGCHI) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

IxD: As an Extension of HCI  Rough characterization of HCI as a field. It examines: 4.

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6.

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2.

3.

joint performance of tasks by humans and machines; structure of communication between human and machine; human capabilities to use machines (including learnability of interfaces); algorithms and programming of the interface itself; engineering concerns that arise in designing and building interfaces; process of specification, design, and implementation and evaluation of interfaces; and design trade-offs.  HCI has

science

,

engineering

, and

design

aspects.

IxD: As an Extension of HCI

IxD as a Design Discipline  Dan Saffer,

Designing for Interaction

, 2010.

 Interaction design perspectives:  Technology-centered view  Behaviorist view  Social Interaction Design view

IxD as a Design Discipline

Technology-centered view

 IxDers make technology useful, usable, and pleasurable to use.  IxDers take stuff produced by engineers and programmers and make it enjoyable for people to use.

IxD as a Design Discipline

Behaviorist view

 IxD is about defining the

behavior

of artifacts, environments, and systems.  Focuses on functionality and feedback:  product behavior  how they provide feedback to people.

IxD as a Design Discipline

Social Interaction Design view

 Broadest view of IxD  IxD revolves around facilitating communication between humans through products.

IxD as a Design Discipline

Social Interaction Design view

 Any object or device can make a connection between people.  Takes many forms;  one-to-one as with a telephone,  one-to-many as with a blog, or  many-to-many as with the stock market.