What interaction designers do, how they do it, some examples of great interaction design

1. ?
wtf is interaction design
Aynne Valencia, San Francisco

2. interaction design manifestations

3. everyone
interaction
designers

4. everyone
interaction
designers

5. if we do our job right
no one even thinks about
the interaction design

6. we are in the midst of a
design revolution

7. natural ways to
interact with
existing
technology

8. old ways to
interact with
new
technology

9. ways things interact &
engage with you

10. interacting with things that
don’t look like technology

11. submerging into
ambient spaces

12. applying
design
practices in
new ways

13. using
technology
to create art

15. design informs
interaction creates behaviors

16. our medium is behavior
Mark Rettig, How to Change Stuff in a Complicated World

17. we enable
expression

18. Design is about creation

19. informed
Design is about creation

20. informed
Design is about creation
for a damn good reason

21. what do interaction
designers do?

22. invisible + intangible visible + tangible
Screen Behaviors Flows
Information Architecture User Interface Design

23. pretty
Space & Context
Systems
Product + System Design

24. Business
Strategy
Computer Industrial
Science Design
Technology
our backgrounds
Physical
Computing
Content &
Content Delivery
Graphic
Design

25. We consider the business case, aesthetics, and
utilize our extensive experience in what makes a
user interface effective and intuitive.

26. this stuff
Business
Strategy
Context + Space
Technology
Visual User Resarch
Design

27. makes this stuff
Business
Strategy
Context + Space
Technology
Visual Mobile
User Resarch
Physical Design Experiences
Products
Interactive
Spaces
Web
Sites
Design Research
Findings

28. and this requires process

29. time to mull things over

30. and teamwork

31. it looks like this:

32. timeline
01 Ideation
ID TECH DESIGN LEAD VISUAL DESIGN
02 Exploration ID TECH DESIGN LEAD VISUAL DESIGN
03 Refinement ID TECH DESIGN LEAD VISUAL DESIGN
04 Production ID TECH DESIGN LEAD VISUAL DESIGN
05 Package + Delivery ID TECH DESIGN LEAD VISUAL DESIGN

37. thanks for listening
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