#6 Interaction Design

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For week 6, we learned about interaction design. Basically the difference between information design and interaction design is that information design focused on planning the design and answered the question “What is this product?” and what is the content/information that the developer want to deliver. On the other hand, interaction design focuses on the mechanics of the design and answers the question “How should it work ?”.

Some critical tasks of interaction design are:

–Create a guidance system to orient users.
–Design the navigation system.
–Define what happens on each screen.
–Design the controls for interaction.
–Determine how much interaction is to be included.

Effective navigation provides enough location information (Orientation) to let users answer the following question:

1.Where am I? - let the user know their current page.
2.Where have I been? - let the user know where they have been
3.Where can I go? – let users know where they are in relation to the rest of the website
4.How do I get there? – provide consistent, easy to understand link.
5.How do I get back to where I started? – provide alternatives to the browser’s back button to let users return to their starting point.

So the main purposes of interaction design is basically to avoid the user 'lost' in the website.

The three essential elements in interaction design are:

1.Organization – How the information will be organized on the pages ?
The homepage should include: