{"id":2669,"date":"2017-10-10T08:39:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T12:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=2669"},"modified":"2017-10-10T08:39:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T12:39:07","slug":"thoughts-on-interaction-design-chapters-3-4-5-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=2669","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Interaction Design: Chapters 3, 4, &amp; 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What information can ethnographic tools give you to improve the interactivity of an online banking website? (pp. 48-54)<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ethnography can teach designers about what users will want and need. Ethnography will help predict how users will interact with a design. Study groups\/user testing could show us that a user is concerned with the security of their online banking website\/app. They could express that they would be comfortable if it looked a certain way or had extra checkpoints (like security questions or verification of their password). <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At what point is a design finished? What makes it a success? What is its purpose? (pp. 54-62)<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A design is finished when the function of the design doesn\u2019t seem like it was designed at all. The way a design functions and the way someone interacts with the design should feel intuitive and instinctual as if it <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">has <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to be designed that way. The design should serve its purpose completely and leave the user without questions of how to use the technology. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A design should be balanced between aesthetics and user engagement\/useage.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A design should serve its purpose easily and with little to no question\/complication.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Identify a product family you use regularly (can be anything from technology to consumables except for coffee). How has its branding affected your use, relationship and experience with the product? (pp. 78-84)<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Apple: I have an iPhone, which I stay up to date on all of the new gadgets and updates. I have a Macbook Pro that I use everyday and connect it to my iPhone. I have an iPad to stay connected in more portable situations, but when I don\u2019t need my phone or my laptop. Everything that I purchase, as far as technology goes, is Apple friendly. I will not buy a product that is not compatible with all of my devices or if the product will harm any of my devices (like some charging cables from outside sources).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Apple\u2019s brand is all about being innovative, but completely intuitive and user friendly. Apple\u2019s tagline is \u201cThink Different\u201d, which speaks a lot about the brand and how they want to be viewed. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Apple is not just a product, it\u2019s a lifestyle. Everything that I do revolved around how I use one of my Apple products. All of my assignments are done on a Mac. All of my communication-other than in person- is done on an iPhone or Mac. Everything is connected to each other in iCloud. Everything I do (sadly, probably) revolves around Apple technology.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What information can ethnographic tools give you to improve the interactivity of an online banking website? (pp. 48-54) Ethnography can teach designers about what users will want and need. Ethnography will help predict how users will interact with a design. Study groups\/user testing could show us that a user is concerned with the security of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=2669\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thoughts on Interaction Design: Chapters 3, 4, &amp; 5&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2669","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\/2669","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\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2670,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions\/2670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}