Interaction design
Interaction design characterizes the behavior or the "interaction" of technical, environmental, biological and organizational system in response to its users over time. Examples of these systems are mobile devices, software, products, environments, services, events, wearables and even organizations themselves.
Need for interaction design
With changing technology, the potential of products and experiences changes, whereby designers face new challenges in helping users use them effective web design increases the utility and experience of the object or system, by researching and understanding and meeting the user's expectations and needs, and it provides good quality design.
Relationship with User Interface Design
Interaction Design is often linked with the User Interface Design of system interfaces in a variety of media but concentrates on the aspects of the interface that define and present its behavior over time, with a focus on developing the system to respond to the user's experience.
Process in Interaction Design
There is a common process that most interaction designers follow, the point of which is to create a solution to a problem, where the aim is to build prototypes and test them with the users to make sure the proposed solution is suitable.
The major steps in most interaction designers' process are –
Design research to learn more about the users and environment to create better designs. With the help of user research, technological possibilities, and business opportunities, designers create concepts for new software, products, services, or systems.
From the research designers create scenarios to visualize the end product or service.
The features and functionality of a product or service are often outlined in the wireframe, which are a page-by-page or screen-by-screen detail of the system. Flow Diagrams outline the logic and steps of the system or an individual feature. Interaction designers use a variety of prototyping techniques to test aspects of design ideas.
Interaction designers have to have a complete knowledge of development of the product or service to guarantee that what was designed is implemented correctly.
Once the system is built, often another round of testing, for both usability and errors is performed.
Certain basic principles such as mental models, mapping, metaphors and affordances provide grounding for interaction design.
Interaction designers work in many areas, including software interfaces, physical products, environments, services, and systems which may combine many of these.
Interaction designers often work in interdisciplinary teams as their work requires skill in various areas, including graphic design, product design, programming, psychology, user testing, etc.
Social interaction design accounts for interactions among users as well as between users and their devices. Social interaction in the community, gathering and teamwork are also some examples of activities that can be designed by social interaction design.