Interaction design
Designing interactive digital products, environments, systems, and services.
Articles
Adding Voice to the Touch Screen User Experience
UX Booth
– 19 January 2021
While touch screens have greatly enhanced the user experience of our mobile devices, there are some usability issues that arise from a combination of a small screen and lack of a physical keyboard. As apps get more complex we need to look beyond just improving the tap and gesture-based user interface to look at other modalities like voice. If done right, expanding the user's interaction to include voice has the potential to make for a more fluid, efficient, and overall more enjoyable experience.
10 Prototyping Tools for Designers in 2021
There is no shortage of ways to showcase a design's interactivity with the numerous prototyping tools available to designers. Ready to try a new way to prototype in 2021? We will take a look at the top 10 latest tools of the trade that can help UX/UI designers to develop the ideal interactive model for their design or product concept.
The problem with dropdown fields (and what you should use instead)
– 29 October 2019
Dropdowns are one of the default fields in the form design toolkit. But far too often, the dropdown is used in a way that makes user input more difficult.
Skeleton versus Logo Launch Screen: A Direct Comparison
– 13 September 2019
The launch screen is the first page that opens when a user taps the app icon. It plays a critical role in creating a first impression for both new and existing customers.
Intercom’s fundamentals of good interaction design
– 10 September 2019
The design community is no longer talking about having to prove the value of design to get a seat at the table. Designers have demonstrated that design can be a central pillar of business success. But they’ve also lost something along the way.
Three simple rules of good touch design
– 30 January 2019
Design for touch is different from designing just for digital interfaces. Touch literally puts pieces of information on the fingertip to manipulate it. Here are few guidelines to design for touch.
Resources
User onboard
UserOnboard
The process of increasing the likelihood that new users become successful when adopting your product.
Courses
Interaction design for usability
This course will teach you fundamental usability concepts and methods and will tie them together with interaction and visual design.
Psychology of interaction design: the ultimate guide
This course will equip you with the knowledge to relate to your users psychologically, thus allowing you to create stand-out products.
The brain and technology: brain science in interface design
This course merges brain science and computer science in order to teach you the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
Human-Computer Interaction - HCI
This course provides a comprehensive introduction and deep dive into HCI, so you can create designs that provide outstanding user experiences.
Books
About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design
The essential interaction design guide, fully revised and updated for the mobile age.
Seductive Interaction Design
What happens when you’ve built a great website or app, but no one seems to care?