Is interaction

A few notes on interaction design taken from Dan Saffer’s talk Interaction as Material from the 2008 Event Design Summit in Hollywood.

What is Interactaction?

• Although technology is often involved, interaction is not a technology
• Not necessarily about “interactives” either
• It is a way of designing
• Interaction (design) starts with behaviour
• You design from the inside out

“An honest job of design should flow from the inside out, not from the outside in.” Henry Dreyfuss, 1955

Moments that matter (via IDEO’s Spaces That Matter)

• Time + Space + Emotion
• Halo moments influence others, but pick the right ones
• Serendipity, not staging
• Not every moment matters

The best designs are those that “dissolve into behaviour.” Naoto Fukasawa