IFD:Course Interaction Design

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A Students Guide to Interaction Design

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Preface

goals: This guide is aimed at students who want to develop new products, services, software or websites. We cover the whole interaction design process in a brief and understandable way and enable students to understand the most important terms so that they can read the literature.

No-Goals: Include material that is non-relevant for practical work.

Introduction and Foundations

What is Interaction Design?

I suppose when you hear about "Interaction Design" you probably think about computer applications. He or she will probably decide how the functions of the software are represented to the user as icons or menu entries. You are not wrong with these assumptions: The most people who work as "Interaction Designer" deal with applications or websites and among other things they design what appears on the computer screen.


Iterative Design Process

Usability Goals

Get to know what your users need

Formulate your goals

Early Design

Basics of Psychology

Know the Brain

Mental Models

Basic Principles& Best Practices

Standards and Consistency

Metaphors

Visibility

Modeless Design

Get to know if your ideas work!

Getting people top do the testing

Choosing a task

Writing a scenario

Crafting fun! Build a Paper-Prototype

...or do something in code!

Do the test

Formulate your findings

Start again!