Over the last 2 years since I was introduced to experience design, I have noticed a lot of online content but haven't really seen printable materials about user experience (UX) that are printable and suited for notice boards found at schools and similar hallways in professional spaces (offices, conferences, etc...)

I posted a question in the UX group on the brazen careerist asking about what an A4/letter sized flyer on UX could contain. >>> Read More

I have decided that when I start an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) client, that I would set the IRC client of my choise (MIRC for Windows) to auto-join a channel called interaction-design on Freenode's servers. I usually join IRC servers and channels when I'm feeling social and there's not much of reason to be outside. Once IRC is started, I let the client (MIRC) run in the background even when I'm not actively paying attention to the channels. >>> Read More

An interactive element is a part of a product or application that is intentionally designed to cause the systems within a product or application to respond when an input, action or an external force is applied to that element.

Online, the most common interactive element (found on nearly every website) are hyper-text links which are usually underlined to denote that when clicked, a new page or a new website is displayed.

In the offline world, the on and off switch (or button) that causes an electronic system to start or stop, can be considered as interactive elements. >>> Read More

Design education seems to be lacking in schools I've been to (Arabia and India.) To reduce the lack of awareness of design and its role in the socio-economic environment, I've been assessing ways to increase the awareness of interaction design and related design fields among the general public. Schooling students, who would be tommorrow's general public, about design is the most likely to be effective in establishing design as a part of everyday life and in increasing the value and/or the economy of goods and services. I've used a question and answer approach (that can be seen below) for figuring out the best approach to introducing design to the general public. >>> Read More

I'll be focusing more on human to technology/computer interaction resume than human to human via technology/computer interaction strategies.

Related offsite posts:

• http://www.forum.nokia.com/infocenter/index.jsp?topic=/Flash_Lite_Develo...
• http://www.ixdgroup.org/discuss.php?post=25375

To Do:

Where does an Interaction Strategy fit in: >>> Read More

Practitioner of the field of Interaction Design

Mozilla Labs' Pascal Finette posted a design challenge invitation on http://www.ixda.org/ . The design challenge is “What would a browser look like if the Web was all there was? No windows, no unnecessary trappings. Just the Web.”

The goal of my design idea is to reduce the use of the address bar in a browser as far as possible. There are scenarios where a physical keyboard may not always be available for use with web enabled technology platforms (eg. surface computers.)

One inspiration behind the design idea is that there already is a significant number of internet users who despite having a physical keyboard present for url entry, tend not to use the address bar that much if at all for web navigation (based on personal observation.) >>> Read More

An interaction designer defines the interactive processes of applications and products in response to human behavior.

What does that mean?

Interaction designers make things such as website services, software applications and interactive physical products easier to use by the general public or a specific set of users.

Do interaction designers make the product or service faster?

No, thats what coders do although interaction designers can make the site goal or tasks more quicker to execute by the user (rather than the computer) allowing the user to do more or view more information.

Do interaction designer make things look nicer?

No, thats what visual designers/graphics artists do.

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