Practical IxD For Developers

Developers have a strong role to play in the Interaction Design of applications.

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1. Practical Interaction Design For Developers
2. David Ortinau @davidortinau http://davidortinau.com 15 yrs web, interactive, mobile. Flash, iPhone, Android, WP7 BA English, Maryville University
7. interaction design Interaction Design (IxD) defines the structure and behavior of interactive systems. Interaction Designers strive to create meaningful relationships between people and the products and services that they use, from computers to mobile devices to appliances and beyond. http://www.ixda.org/
8. Bill Moggridge - IDEO “Interaction design is concerned with describing possible user behavior and defining how the system will accommodate and respond to that behavior.”
9. Jesse James Garrett - Adaptive Path “In traditional software development, the discipline involved in creating a structured experience for the user is known as interaction design.”
11. Jarod Spool - UIE “The big difference that’s arisen in this new agile world is how integrated the team is. No longer is UX design owned by the UX designers: everyone on the team now has design responsibilities. That means that everyone needs to be informed about what the design is trying to do.”
13. Bill Verplank’s Three Questions “Designing Interactions”, Bill Moggridge (http://www.designinginteractions.com/interviews/BillVerplank)
15. Captain Avery Doctor Who: The Curse of the Black Spot “Wheel. Telescope. Astrolabe. Compass. A ship’s a ship.”
16. Text
18. Mental Models Susan Carey (1986), Don Norman (1988), Alan Cooper (1995) and IBM (1992)
21. Susan Carey (1986) “A mental model represents a person’s thought process for how something works (i.e., a person’s understanding of the surrounding world). Mental models are based on incomplete facts, past experiences, and even intuitive perceptions. They help shape actions and behavior, influence what people pay attention to in complicated situations, and define how people approach and solve problems.”
24. Mental models • [photo of photos in a box] •
25. Mental Models • [photo of desktop, filing cabinets]
28. via @iamFinch “About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design “, Alan Cooper
29. User Feedback
32. http://www.alistapart.com/articles/inline-validation-in-web-forms/
33. (my) Real World IxD
34. A User Story Face Identification The application has automagically found faces in the user’s photos, and has created unknown people. The user needs to identify these unknown faces by creating people profiles and associating them with the faces. This will in turn help the facial recognition to learn and match these without user intervention.
35. A Use Case 1. User selects one or more face thumbnails from a list of unknown faces. 2. User selects an existing person they have already identified to associate the selected faces with. 2.1.User may opt to enter a name not previously created. This will create a new person profile and add it to the list of known people. 2.2.User may select or add a person before selecting thumbnails. 3. User clicks save to commit the selections. 4. The application saves the data, and refreshes the thumbnail list removing the selected faces.
37. prototyping demo
38. Actionable • Consume solid IxD and UX principles daily. • Books, Twitter, Presentations, Discussions • Build relationships with your team around how you can help. • Advocate for IxD and UX principles. • Don’t fall for the quick hack; Do what’s right. • Use your apps daily. • Increase your exposure to users using your apps.
39. Jarod Spool - UIE “Exposure hours. The number of hours each team member is exposed directly to real users interacting with the team's designs or the team's competitor's designs. There is a direct correlation between this exposure and the improvements we see in the designs that team produces.”
40. Contact Me @davidortinau http://davidortinau.com dave@davidortinau.com