Week 5 Questions Response

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

Interaction design is creating products, systems, and services with user behavior in mind. Interactive media is more heavily technologically centered than human centered, and since there is so much that goes into the making of any design, the user’s goals and expectations may be overlooked at times.

What is interaction design, how it’s evolving. What fields does it draw knowledge from?

Interaction design is now an important consideration even for products that used to be quite simple, as digital components become cheaper and easier to implement into existing products. This design practice is closely tied to the fields of cognitive psychology and art.