Thoughts on Interactive Design: Chapters 1 & 2

  • What makes up interaction design and what are some of the industry’s challenges?

Some challenges include selling to your boss that it is going to take several weeks to write something, not having a budget for discovery, expertise makes it hard to remember what a novice feels like, finally, creating deep designs with the fourth dimension in mind.

  • What is interaction design, how its evolving. What fields does it draw knowledge from?

Interactive design draws from the written word, but it’s also bringing in information from so many other places to evolve. Designers use ethnography tools to figure out why people do things. They are similar to marketers because both are interested in human behavior. Interactive design also pulls from storytelling.