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INTERACTION DESIGN: PRINCIPLES & PRACTICES !ADS 765, ADS 560, INDD 578 (3 credits) Fall 2014!!Tuesday 6:00–9:00p A&D 313 Lawrence Campus, BEST245, Edwards Campus.

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© HumanCentered 2007, All Rights Reserved! Interaction Design

Lawrence

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Edwards

Undergrads

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COURSE CONTENT !Interaction design (IxD) is a discipline centering on dynamics of human behavior and user experience. Interaction Designers research and create products, services and/or environments that are demonstrably useful, usable and/or desirable to people, as well as economically attractive to business.

This course introduces principles and practices of Interaction Design. Topics range from interaction models, interface metaphors, and technological applications in advertising, entertainment, and environment.

Students are guided thru processes of evidence-based practice including requirements gathering, user research and assessment, design prototyping and simulation; testing and evaluation.


FORMAT Seminar, Studio/Lab. Instructor videoconferences

alternating Tuesdays between Lawrence Campus and

Edwards Campus, RC21.

!GRADING Class Engagement 50%, Exercises & Exams 20%,

Group Projects 30%

!EXPECTATIONS Stay engaged and in touch

Work hard and smart individually and in teams

Be verbal

!COURSE COMMUNICATION Create a gmail account and email your address


Fall Break: October 13-14, 2014

!Thanksgiving Break: November 26-27, 2014

!Last regular class session: December 9, 2014

!Course Final: Dec 16

!Course grades posted: Dec 29

KEY DATES


REQUIRED TEXTS, READINGS*

*Additional individual readings are issued by instructor

Thoughtful Interaction Design: A Design Perspective on Information Technology By Jonas Löwgren and Erik Stolterman

Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction, Preece, Rogers, Sharp, 3rd Edition, 2011

http://mitpress.mit.edu/authors/jonas-l%C3%B6wgren

http://mitpress.mit.edu/authors/erik-stolterman


Supporting Sources“About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design”, Alan Cooper, 2007

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"Designing For the Digital Age”, Goodwin, Wiley, 2009

Inventing the Medium: Principles of Interaction Design as a Cultural Practice,

Janet H. Murray, Wiley 2011

http://mitpress.mit.edu/authors/janet-h-murray


Week Date

LECTURE & DISCUSSION EXERCISE

For Wk1 Aug 26

Approaching the subject of Human Interaction

Read Chapters 1 “What is Interaction Design?”

Do the Handheld Device exercise on

P. 31 of Preece text

For Wk 2 Sep 2

Conceptualizing Interaction Design

Read and come to class prepared to discuss

Chapters 1 & 2“What is Interaction

Design?”, “Understanding & Conceptualizing Interaction

Come to class ready to report on results of your

Handheld Device exercise. Feel free to post a short

summary to the Community board.

COURSE SCHEDULE

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introductionsabout you

introductions


Lawrence

[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

[email protected]@gmail.com [email protected]@kc.frb.org

[email protected]

Edwards

Undergrads

[email protected]@ku.edu [email protected]

Interaction Design

about me

Interaction Design


As designers, we need to get smarter, be more astute, less egotistical, and pay greater attention to the situations and to

the people for whom our designs are intended. Our designs must perform

better, cost less, and last longer....and be more meaningful.


So you want to be an interaction designer

http://www.cooper.com/journal/2001/06/so_you_want_to_be_an_interacti.html/

Pursuing academic trainingHow is interaction design different?

http://www.cooper.com/journal/2001/06/so_you_want_to_be_an_interacti.html/


Interaction Design is a design discipline dedicated to:

• Defining the behavior of artifacts, environments,

and systems (i.e., products)

…and therefore concerned with:

• Defining the form of products as they relate to their

behavior and use

• Anticipating how the use of products will mediate

human relationships and affect human

understanding

• Exploring the dialogue between products, people,

and contexts (physical, cultural, historical)



Interaction design is also a perspective that

approaches the design of products in several

different ways:

• From an understanding of how and why people

desire to use them

• As an advocate for the users and their goals

• As gestalts, not simply as sets of features and

attributes

• By looking to the future-seeing things as they

might be, not necessarily as they currently are



Given these definitions, interaction designers must:

• Learn new domains quickly

• Solve problems both analytically and creatively

• Be able to visualize and simplify complex systems

• Empathize with users, their needs, and their

aspirations

• Understand the strengths and limitations of both

humans and technology

• Share a passion for making the world a better place

through ethical, purposeful, pragmatic, and elegant

design solutions


Interaction Design

WHAT IS INTERACTION DESIGN?

© HumanCentered 2004, All Rights Reserved!© HumanCentered 2008, All Rights Reserved! Interaction Design

What it is...Interaction Design is the discipline of defining and

creating the behavior (the "interaction") of an

artifact or system in response to its users over

time, resulting in products, services, and systems

that are useable, useful and desirable to people–

as well as economically viable to business.

!Because Interaction Design is about behavior and

experience, it requires a new set of methods and

practices that complement more traditional design

disciplines who's methods and practice are

centered on the design of form and content.

!IxD is a versatile, growing design discipline

influencing not only how businesses transact with

customers, but often how businesses themselves

are shaped to maximize their own value in the

marketplace.


Art and design...

The best thing about art is that it isn’t life. You can

switch it off, you can walk out, walk away from it.

So, therefore, you can surrender to it as well.

– Brian Eno


Art and design...

It’s one thing to create a piece of art that sort of stays where you put it. It’s another to mess around with life.

–Esther Dyson

© HumanCentered 2004, All Rights Reserved!© HumanCentered 2008, All Rights Reserved!

What is design? It can be material or conceptual,

and is experienced as beauty, value and meaning.

Unlike the fine arts, design has an everyday use, so

it must excel at both form and function. It's also

intellectual property and cultural capital, which is

why it ladders the entire economic value chain.

– Chris Conley, Gravity Tank

Art and design...


https://vimeo.com/9659499

Nathan Shedroff: Meaningful Innovation Relies on Interaction and Service Design

Interaction Design

INTERACTION DESIGN: PRINCIPLES & PRACTICES !ADS 765, ADS 560, INDD 578 (3 credits) Fall 2014!!Tuesday 6:00–9:00p A&D 313 Lawrence Campus, BEST245, Edwards Campus.

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