Chapter 1: What is Interaction Design?
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Below is additional material associated with the topics covered in chapter 1.
Interaction Design
An article called the “Complete Beginner’s Guide to Interaction Design” by Andrew Maier (2018) can be found at:
www.uxbooth.com/articles/complete-beginners-guide-to-interaction-design/
It presents an overview of all aspects of interaction design including the history, guiding principles, noted designers, and their methods.
There are many blogs on interaction design. We have selected some of our favorites that appear on our starters page. O’Danny Boy (www.odannyboy.com) also has a summary of his favorite articles on design on his website (see www.odannyboy.com/2016/12/my-favorite-design-articles-2016/).
Good and bad designs
Don Norman has written a number of essays and books on this topic. For a number of thought provoking examples see: www.jnd.org/GoodDesign.html
Bad designs is an online scrapbook of illustrated examples of things that are hard to use because they do not follow user-centered design principles, compiled by Michael J. Darnell. Although not updated since 2010 there are some classics on the website. See: www.baddesigns.com
Design principles
There are a number of articles discussing design principles on the web. For example, Springboard Blog has a set of 16 important ones for newcomers. See: www.springboard.com/blog/ux-design-principles
Ask Tog has a large collection of usability principles that are clearly explained and which are also in Dutch, German and Spanish. See: www.asktog.com/basics/firstPrinciples.html
Accessibility
Web accessibility initiative (WAI) develops guidelines that are the international standard for web design: http://www.w3.org/WAI/
See also: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/Understanding_WCAG
Links provided in the book:
- Durrell Bishop's answering machine (p4): vimeo.com/19930744