What is interaction design?

As a new discipline focusing on interactive experience, interactive design was born in 1980s. It was founded by Bill? Moggridge proposed it at a design meeting of 1984, and at first he named it "Soft Face". Because this name is easily associated with the popular toy "Cabbage Doll" at that time, he later renamed it "Interactive Design"-Interactive Design.

From the user's point of view, interaction design is a technology that makes products easy to use, effective and enjoyable. It is committed to understanding the target users and their expectations, the behavior of the other party when users interact with products, and the psychological and behavioral characteristics of "people". At the same time, it also includes understanding various effective ways of interaction, and strengthening and expanding them. Interaction design also involves many disciplines and needs to communicate with people from many fields and backgrounds.

Through the interactive design of product interface and behavior, an organic connection can be established between the product and the user, so as to effectively realize the user's goal, which is the purpose of interactive design.

Definition of interaction design:

Simply put, interactive design is the design and definition of the behavior of objects, environments and systems, as well as the morphological elements that convey this behavior. Different from the traditional design discipline, it focuses on content and connotation recently, while interactive design first aims at planning and describing the behavior of things, and then describes the most effective form to convey this behavior.

Interactive design draws lessons from the theories and technologies of traditional design, usability and engineering disciplines. It is a synthesis with unique methods and practices, not just a partial superposition. It is also an engineering discipline, which is different from other scientific and engineering disciplines.