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Interaction Design
One of the things I try to get my students thinking about in CS462 is Web site design. I’m not talking graphics here—most techies are terrificly bad at making things look nice. I’m talking about the interaction.
I’m not hoping to turn them into usability experts, but I do want to give them the tools to design and document interaction and tie it to Web site behavior. People say you can teach design and I agree that it’s hard to lecture about—but you can teach it. I have my students do design exercises as groups in class to get them thinking along these lines to to get some hands-on experience with design.
I just put a show on IT Conversations this week that’s relevant. Dan Saffer’s presentation on interaction design from the Adaptive Path User Experience Week is a good intro to the subject of interaction design and why it’s important. He gives a more tactical presentation later in the conference that I hope we’ll publish as well later on.
Posted by windley on September 29, 2006 3:22 PM
Comment from Greg Van Alstyne at October 4, 2006 7:29 PM
Phil, I'm a big fan of IT Conversations. So I wish this was a more significant comment (will get to that eventually).
Just writing to say it's spelled "Saffer" not "SHaffer" -- I'm assigning his text in my own Interactive Communications course as well.
best, --GVA
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