Lecture Week 2

Summary

In interactive design there are five key design areas that contribute to the design of interactive products. These five key design areas are interactivity, information architecture, time and motion, narrative and interface. All together these five key design elements make up what essentially is interactive design. Interactivity, in computers is the dialogue that occurs between humans and a computer program, an example would be playing a video game where the user being the human interacts with the program.

Reflection

In reference to Bill Verplank, interaction designers have three vital questions they need to answer before they can proceed with any process, these three questions are about how people act, how they feel and how they understand. I think that every designer has to do their research which in this case are those three vital questions stated above as they need to be able to overcome any challenges or problems that may occur before they can progress any further when creating or designing any interactive products.