{"id":1235,"date":"2016-02-23T18:23:07","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T01:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2016-02-23T18:23:07","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T01:23:07","slug":"thoughts-on-interaction-design-chapters-1-2-responses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=1235","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Interaction Design: Chapters 1 &amp; 2 Responses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What makes up interaction design and what are some of the industry\u2019s challenges?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Interaction design is made up of six different phases in completing a project. \u00a0It involves defining the design problem or opportunity, discovering hidden wants, needs, and desires, synthesizing, creating, refining, and reflecting. \u00a0It is a complex process of attempting to understand\u00a0users and what they are looking to obtain from the final output. \u00a0Challenges to the industry include the complexity in people&#8217;s changing wants and desires, changing lifestyles, new technologies, and maximum usability efforts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is interaction design, how its evolving. What fields does it draw knowledge from?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Essentially, interaction design is &#8220;a creative process focused on people&#8221; (pg 20). \u00a0Based on how people react to and interact with the world around them, interaction designers design engaging user interfaces intended to offer maximum user satisfaction and usability. \u00a0With evolution in technology comes evolution in interaction design. \u00a0Changes among people also impact the process in interaction design. \u00a0Among other fields, it draws knowledge from marketing, engineering, and distribution. \u00a0Marketing is essential to ensure that the brand is both consistent and compelling. \u00a0Knowledge and expertise in engineering ensures that a product is functional, which becomes increasingly important in new technology. \u00a0Distribution knowledge is critical in moving a product into the market in a way that will make it thrive in a timely and cost-effective way. \u00a0In addition, knowing ethnographic information about people and using language to appeal to them will aid interaction designers in successfully completing their tasks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What makes up interaction design and what are some of the industry\u2019s challenges? Interaction design is made up of six different phases in completing a project. \u00a0It involves defining the design problem or opportunity, discovering hidden wants, needs, and desires, synthesizing, creating, refining, and reflecting. \u00a0It is a complex process of attempting to understand\u00a0users and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=1235\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thoughts on Interaction Design: Chapters 1 &amp; 2 Responses&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artm2220-designing-for-new-media","category-reading-response"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1240,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions\/1240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}