The proses of interactive design

1.       Visual Communication : A standard in designing interaction

-          Communicating the UI

-          Designing for interactive flow

-          Users are king

Focus on establishing visual communication’s key importance in interface design and the designer’s responsibility to the user.

2.       Finding the flow : Designing interaction

-          Graphical user interfaces

-          Information architecture

-          Global and conceptual navigation in IA Hierarchical structures

-          Testing, testing : Early design iterations

Delves into designing for interaction across a range of different graphical user interface, before examining information architecture.

3.       Graphic design for digital media

-          Gridding interactivity

-          Type as interface

-          Colouring the screen

-          Imagery and the pixel

-          Iconografy and metaphor

-          Going with the motion

Creates a useful  framework of important key points on graphic design for digital media – layout, colour, iconography, imagery and typography.

4.       Designing the aesthetic user experience

-          Design and the user

-          Content copy ant the user

-          UI semiotics

-          Internationalization

Builds upon this framework and applies these visual communication basics to effectively facilitate a succesful interactive user experience

5.       Collaborating with the developer

-          The principles of designing modularity

-          Modularizing the aesthetic

-          What the designer provides

Provides practical help for designers to improve their communication with the developer by exploring each other’s needs.