Interaction design -- lecture planning.

[moshez]

I've promised to give a talk about Interaction Design for a local group of "intellectual interest" people. I have great passion about it, I have some knowledge of it -- but only some. I will be collecting links in this post, and if you have more links, research points and other miscellenia, please comment

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[babalon_it]

I've got an instance of "when it's good".

Yesterday, I needed to get to my friend's house. I opened up the contact, and (remembering everyone whining about "no copy and paste!") tapped on the friend's address and lo and behold - the built-in googlemap opened to that address! It was like magic.

It's not an example of user interface - but of interface between two "separate" apps that are integrated so seamlessly that the user doesn't have to think about it.

koltura?

[herenot]

is this talk for the coltura forum? and when is it?

Re: koltura?

[herenot]

never mind. I know now.

you have a month and a half to get 'your affairs in order'

Re: koltura?

[herenot]

oh. and you want examples too?

Flickr's interface is pretty good, IMHO.

you've talked about the Ipod, but there are some other great, more subtle examples from apple, for example:

the power connector on apples laptop (magnetic latch - so the laptop is not sent flying to the floor when someone accidentaly tuggs it) - the connector is a rectangle profine (similar to USB) - but his five connectors. why do you need five connectors on a power cord? - simple. the connector is a mirror image of the 2 connectors - so you can insert it up or down (it's the same thing) - unlike USB which you always have to think about how to insert. (I know that the USB logo needs to be on the top - but most people don't).

are you going to get into the crazy multitouch futuristic stuff too? (iphone, jeff hunn, microsoft surface, jazzmutant lemur?)

Re: koltura?

[herenot]

some more stuff - you may want to wade through my blog, I've written some rants on the subject from time to time.

and linked, too.

this is a cool article:

http://www.core77.com/reactor/06.07_merholz.asp

[tedesson]

Wii sports are good. They just work the way you'd expect, with a very natural physical motion, and clear feedback from the game.

I say the target audience is grandparents and grandchildren for Wii.

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[anonymous]

very interesting, but I don't agree with you
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