1. What makes up interaction design and what are some of the industry’s challenges?
Interaction design is a process of creating and defining what the issues of design are through tests and getting user reviews. There are many steps that go along with this; define, discover, synthesize, construct, refine, and reflect. Some challenges that the industry faces is that many people do not understand what interaction design is and therefor put a lot of strain and difficulties on those who work with it daily. A lot of problems that occur are also a direct result of communication and resources, some might lack one or both of these.
2. What is interaction design, how its evolving. What fields does it draw knowledge from?
Interaction design is a user-oriented field of study that focuses on meaningful communication of media through cyclical and collaborative processes between people and technology. In order to have a successful interactive designs, setting clearly defined goals, a strong purpose and intuitive screen interface. It is evolving through the sociological and psychological field. These people study consumers use with certain products. How the encounter with it went, whether negative or positive. It draws in knowledge mainly from sociology and psychology.