What makes up interaction design and what are some of the industry’s challenges?
An interaction design must include a goal-drive design which focuses on personas, user scenarios and experience maps. Usability is also important; the product must be intuitive and reliable before it can be used by users. Learnability, so that the interfaces would feel more natural and more usable with less distractions. The interface should also be quick at responding so that it would feel like a real conversation for the user. Some of the industry’s challenges would be trying to create convergent products that are easy to use and pleasant to encounter; however, as the physical and digital product development evolves, the only differentiator in service would be the cost. Not only should the design be easy to use, the design should also have a strong emotive aspect to engage the user.
What is interaction design, how its evolving. What fields does it draw knowledge from?
Interaction Design is the dialogue between person and product, system, or service. The dialogue is both physical and emotional in nature. The dialogue is manifested in form, function and technology. Interaction is evolving because interaction used to be intangible. Interaction design impressed users with simple interactions with unexpected to animation, but now it became a required feature with the interface. New interaction designs continue to arise as new technologies are developed. Interaction design draws its knowledge from the field of psychology because interaction design uses the cognitive, memory, and perception from it to create designs for the user.