Interaction Design Archives

Building a Rapport with Kids for User Testing

Customer Experience, Design, Emotion, Empathy, Interaction Design, Mobile Applications, Personal and Professional Development, Product design, Product Releases and Redesigns, Project Management, Psychology and Human Behavior, Research Methods and Techniques, Research Tools and Software, Usability, User Acceptance Testing, User Reported Feedback

By mitigating the feeling in users of being watched and judged, you can get better data from testing sessions—especially when working with kids.

Article by Nick Shim

July 28, 2014

3 min read

Creating Outstanding Experiences for Digital Natives

Analytics and Tracking, Business Value and ROI, Customer Experience, Design, Facebook, Flow and Immersion, Google, Interaction Design, Interface and Navigation Design, iPad, iPhone, Mobile Applications, Mobile Technology, New and Emerging Technologies, Product design, Psychology and Human Behavior, Social Networking, Strategy, Tablet, Technology, Usability, User Reported Feedback

A survey of Digital Natives reveals a group of impatient users with fragmented attention spans who demand fast and intuitive products and services.

Article by Saskia Schippers, Meike Mak

July 24, 2014

4 min read

Persona Power

Business Value and ROI, Consumer products, Customer Experience, Design, Design Tools and Software, Empathy, Ethnography, Human factors, Interaction Design, Internal Company Dynamics, Personal and Professional Development, Personas, Product design, Project Management, Psychology and Human Behavior, Requirements and Specifications, Research Tools and Software, Team Dynamics, Technology, Usability

Looking at personas, goals, and scenarios relative to the characters, plot, and objectives of a novel or movie can help designers avoid self-referential thinking.

Article by Shlomo Goltz

July 23, 2014

5 min read

Is there Room for Sexy in Enterprise Design?

Business Value and ROI, Customer Experience, Design, Emotion, Employee Experience, Enterprise Products, Flow and Immersion, Human factors, Interaction Design, Interface and Navigation Design, Internal Company Dynamics, Internal Company Systems and Intranets, New and Emerging Technologies, Product design, Project Management, Psychology and Human Behavior, Software, Team Dynamics, Technology

Sexy design has it’s place in enterprise software, so long as you know what sexy is to your users.

Article by Mick McGee

July 14, 2014

5 min read

Disruptive IoT Innovation

Analytics and Tracking, Consumer products, Customer Experience, Design, E-commerce, Information Design and Architecture, Interaction Design, Interface and Navigation Design, Location-Based Services, Mobile Applications, Mobile Technology, New and Emerging Technologies, Product design, Technology, Usability

As new technology allows increased connectivity between devices and consumer products, there are more opportunities to gain market value through disruptive innovation.

Article by Avi Itzkovitch

July 14, 2014

5 min read

Designing for Kids, Then and Now

Apple, Consumer products, Decision Architecture, Design Tools and Software, Flow and Immersion, Gaming, Gestures, Information Design and Architecture, Interaction Design, Interface and Navigation Design, iPad, Mobile Applications, Mobile Technology, Motion and Animation, New and Emerging Technologies, Product design, Tablet, Technology, Usability, Video, Web

In an excerpt from her new book Design for Kids, Debra Levin Gelman looks at how the relationship between children and technology has changed over the last three decades.

Article by Debra Levin Gelman

July 14, 2014

5 min read

Interaction Design

Building a Rapport with Kids for User Testing