Chapter 5 Responses

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


Interaction design is a highly complex field that pulls from many studies to design products to apply an understanding of human behavior to designing products and systems. This new industry is still working to establish and differentiate itself from the other disciplines that it is closely related to. Also, the industry has been revolutionized in the past years by growing technologies and is struggling to have a firm place in the process of development.


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


Interaction design is applying knowledge in human behavior to designing products, services, or systems for humans. In recent years, interaction design has shifted its application to many different users flows in regards to designing technology. It is a study that overlaps with many other fields such as psychology, design, engineering, and anthropology.