Interaction design

Interaction design began the day the first screen was designed to hold more than static copy. Everything from a button to a link to a form field is part of interaction design. Over the past several decades, a number of books have been released that explain facets of interaction design, and explore the myriad ways it intersects and overlaps with experience design.

Interaction design has evolved to facilitate interactions between people and their environment. Unlike user experience design, which accounts for all user-facing aspects of a system, interaction designers are only concerned with the specific interactions between users and a screen. Of course, in practice things are never so crisply delineated.

Designers’ work in IxD involves five dimensions: words (1D), visual representations (2D), physical objects/space (3D), time (4D), and behavior (5D).

• 1D: words should be simple to understand, and written in such a way that they communicate information easily to the end user.
• 2D: visual representations are all graphics or images, essentially everything that is not text. They should be used in moderation, so as to not overwhelm.
• 3D: physical objects or space refers to the physical hardware, whether it’s a mouse and keyboard, or a mobile device a user interacts with.
• 4D: time is the length that the user spends interacting with the first three dimensions. It includes the ways in which the user might measure progress, as well as sound and animation.
• 5D: behavior was added by Kevin Silver in his article, What Puts the Design in Interaction Design. It is the emotions and reactions that the user has when interacting with the system.

Using these five dimensions, an interaction designer can pay attention to the very experience the user has when communicating and connecting with a system.

Complete Beginner’s Guide to Interaction Design – https://www.uxbooth.com/articles/complete-beginners-guide-to-interaction-design/

5 psychology secrets for great interaction design

It’s becoming more important every day for your designs to connect more with users and include a “human element.” Website and user experience design needs to feel real, from aesthetics to interactions to motion (perceived and real) to emotional connection.

The problem designers most often encounter when thinking about users is not thinking about them as actual people. It sounds a little crazy, right? But we are not talking about designing robots here. As described in Interaction Design Best Practices, humanistic design creates an engaging experience that users can connect with physically and emotionally.

1. Your Mantra: “Humans Come First”
2. Design for Comfort and Predictability
3. Connect Emotionally
4. Design with Mental Triggers
5. Design With Simplicity

Continue reading: https://thenextweb.com/dd/2015/09/03/5-psychology-secrets-for-great-interaction-design/