Interaction design - a designing discipline

January 29, 2008

Interaction design is a professional discipline, symbolically known as IxD. It practices the designing of interactive digital systems, electronic products, technological environments and sophisticated services. In other words, it is a discipline like other designing disciplines that are concerned with electronic machineries and gadgets.

Interaction design is a design discipline which is moderately different from science and engineering in the sense that science and engineering focus on constructing electronic devices, whereas interaction design make the process simple for users to handle the devices.

Digital products are capable of handling thousands of processes while the mechanical devices handle several dozens of visible states. It is quite impossible to keep track of such long processes since the mechanisms linked with such actions are very much complex. The complexity of these digital products and mechanical devices can sometimes turn out to be a nightmare for both the designers and the users. The best way to over come this complexity is to deal with the process rationally. Interaction design works in a rational approach which makes life easier for the users and the designers.

According to Gestalt Theory, humans recognize most things as a collection of individual features. They search relationship of surrounding things and form a unified object. Interaction design works in the same way. They form the unified object. Once the design starts to work in full flow, the users need not know how actions are being read by the system. Thus interaction design helps the users and the designers to keep track and effectively handle the device.

The work of IxD is to make this complex behavior look simple, and with its unique methods and practices allows the user to understand and implement these behaviors into simple terms. With the objective to make products and machineries more useful, usable and desirable, the contribution of IxD is available from mobile phones to TVs to video games to music systems to vehicles to military vessels.

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