Interactive design: User-oriented and realistic interactive design

Interactive Design Practical Guide series (0)--interactive design in our eyes

Interactive Design (Interaction design, abbreviated IXD, or IaD) is the domain of designing the behavior of an artificial system. Artificial objects, i.e., artificial objects, such as software, mobile devices, artificial environments, services, wearable devices, and the organizational structure of the system. Interaction design is the interface (Wikipedia) that defines the way in which the human creation behaves (the "interaction", i.e. the way artifacts are reacted in a particular scenario). Interaction design is done by interacting with the interface and behavior so that users can use human artifacts to accomplish their goals.

From the user's perspective, interactive design is a way to make the product easy to use, an effective and enjoyable technology that is dedicated to understanding the target audience and their expectations, understanding the behavior of the user when interacting with the product, understanding the psychological and behavioral characteristics of the person, and including understanding the effective ways of interacting with each other, and to enhance and expand them. The interactive design also involves a number of disciplines, as well as communication with multiple background people.

In the practical Guide to interactive design, we believe that interaction design should be the creation of the interface between humans and computers, i.e. Man-machine interface (Human-computer Interface) (see figure below). The starting point of interactive design is to study user and Computer Communication (dialog), human mental model and behavior model, and on the basis of this research, design interface information and its interactive mode, use Man-machine interface to translate user's behavior to computer, translate the behavior of computer to the user, to meet the need of software use. So, interactive design, on the one hand, is user-oriented, when interactive design is the pursuit of usability (usability), which is the purpose of interaction design, another aspect of interaction design is computer-oriented, when we focus on "software engineering."