interaction design

Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

Interaction DesignTangible User Interfaces

Vicky Teinaki16 April 2008

Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

Overview

• Background

• About Interaction Design

• Events + Some Key People

• Process

• Tangible User Interfaces (TUI)

• Resources

• Exercise: Card Sorting/Personas

Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

Background

• Master of Design (in progress) - based around tactility and mobile phones

• Looking at how to move from/combine product and interaction design

Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

About Interaction Design

“Interaction design (IxD) is the branch of user experience design that illuminates the relationship between people and the interactive products they use.

While interaction design has a firm foundation in the theory, practice, and methodology of traditional user interface design, its focus is on defining the complex dialogues that occur between people and interactive devices of many types—from computers to mobile communications devices to appliances.”

http://www.ixda.org/about_interaction.php

Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

About Interaction Design

• New field - ranges from information architecture (IA) to usability, HCI, new media etc....

• Word coined by Bill Moggeridge and Bill Verplank in the 1980s

Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

About Interaction Design

Started with 1968 NLS ‘Mother of All Demos’?

Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

About Interaction Design

Apple has been a major player....

Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

First IxDA conference March 2008 in Savannah, Texas

About Interaction Design

http://www.brightcove.tv/search.jsp?query=ixda

Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

Some Key People

• Bill Moggridge (UxD)

• Alan Cooper (Personas)

• Brenda Laurel (Theatre/Gender)

• John Maeda (Simplicity)

• Will Wright (Narrative)

• Anthony Dunne (Design Futures)

Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

Bill Moggridge

Designed the GRID LaptopFounded IDEO, championing UxD

Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

Alan Cooper

Known as “the father of Visual Basic”Created personas

Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

Brenda Laurel

PhD thesis “Computers as Theatre”Purple Moon - computer games for girls

Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

John Maeda

Computer art - emphasis on simplicityInvolved in developing Processing

Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

Will Wright

Created ‘The Sims’Metaphor of a dollhouse

Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby

Exploring technology and subversion‘Post-optimal’, ‘complicated pleasures’

Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

Process

Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

Process

Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

Process

• Competitor Analysis/Task Analysis

• Creating Personas/Scenarios

• Card Sorts (Open/Closed)

• Wireframes

• Lo-fi/Hi-fi Prototypes

[Shift work]

Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

Tangible User Interfaces

• The next step on from Graphical User Interfaces (GUI)

Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

Tangible User Interfaces

Igoe, T. & O’Sullivan, D. (2004)

Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

Tangible User Interfaces

Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

Examples

• RCA work

• MIT Wearable Computing etc.

• IDEO Kiss Communicator

• Marcel Wander’s Blo Lamp

• iPhone (?)

Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

RCA Designing Interactions

Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

MIT Tangible Bits

Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

Blo Lamp

Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

IDEO Kiss Communicator

Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

IPhone - Multitouch etc.

Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

Resources

• MIT Media Lab/RCA Design Interactions

• ‘Designing Interactions’ Bill Moggridge

• ‘The Inmates are Running the Asylum’ Alan Cooper

• Shift www.shift.co.nz

• United Visual Artists www.uva.co.uk

• Interaction Designer’s Association www.ixda.org

• Usability Practitioners’ Association NZ www.upa.org.nz