Presentation given to 3rd year BProdDes students in 2008 on interaction design and tangible interaction.

1. Interaction Design
Tangible User Interfaces
Vicky Teinaki
16 April 2008
Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

2. Overview
• Background
• About Interaction Design
• Events + Some Key People
• Process
• Tangible User Interfaces (TUI)
• Resources
• Exercise: Card Sorting/Personas
Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

3. Background
• Master of Design (in progress) -
based around tactility and mobile
phones
• Looking at how to move from/
combine product and interaction
design
Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

4. About Interaction Design
“Interaction design (IxD) is the branch of user
experience design that illuminates the
relationship between people and the interactive
products they use.
While interaction design has a firm foundation in
the theory, practice, and methodology of
traditional user interface design, its focus is on
defining the complex dialogues that occur
between people and interactive devices of many
types—from computers to mobile
communications devices to appliances.”
http://www.ixda.org/about_interaction.php
Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

5. About Interaction Design
• New field - ranges from information
architecture (IA) to usability, HCI,
new media etc....
• Word coined by Bill Moggeridge and
Bill Verplank in the 1980s
Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

6. About Interaction Design
Started with 1968 NLS ‘Mother of All
Demos’?
Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

7. About Interaction Design
Apple has been a major player....
Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

8. About Interaction Design
http://www.brightcove.tv/search.jsp?query=ixda
First IxDA conference March 2008 in
Savannah, Texas
Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

9. Some Key People
• Bill Moggridge (UxD)
• Alan Cooper (Personas)
• Brenda Laurel (Theatre/Gender)
• John Maeda (Simplicity)
• Will Wright (Narrative)
• Anthony Dunne (Design Futures)
Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

10. Bill Moggridge
Designed the GRID Laptop
Founded IDEO, championing UxD
Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

11. Alan Cooper
Known as “the father of Visual Basic”
Created personas
Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

12. Brenda Laurel
PhD thesis “Computers as Theatre”
Purple Moon - computer games for girls
Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

13. John Maeda
Computer art - emphasis on simplicity
Involved in developing Processing
Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

14. Will Wright
Created ‘The Sims’
Metaphor of a dollhouse
Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

15. Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby
Exploring technology and subversion
‘Post-optimal’, ‘complicated pleasures’
Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

16. Process
Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

17. Process
Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

18. Process
• Competitor Analysis/Task Analysis
• Creating Personas/Scenarios
• Card Sorts (Open/Closed)
• Wireframes
• Lo-fi/Hi-fi Prototypes
[Shift work]
Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

19. Tangible User Interfaces
• The next step on from Graphical
User Interfaces (GUI)
Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

20. Tangible User Interfaces
Igoe, T. & O’Sullivan, D. (2004)
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21. Tangible User Interfaces
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22. Examples
• RCA work
• MIT Wearable Computing etc.
• IDEO Kiss Communicator
• Marcel Wander’s Blo Lamp
• iPhone (?)
Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

23. RCA Designing Interactions
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24. MIT Tangible Bits
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25. Blo Lamp
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26. IDEO Kiss Communicator
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27. IPhone - Multitouch etc.
Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008

28. Resources
• MIT Media Lab/RCA Design Interactions
• ‘Designing Interactions’ Bill Moggridge
• ‘The Inmates are Running the Asylum’ Alan Cooper
• Shift www.shift.co.nz
• United Visual Artists www.uva.co.uk
• Interaction Designer’s Association www.ixda.org
• Usability Practitioners’ Association NZ www.upa.org.nz
Vicky Teinaki BProdDes Human Factors Presentation 16 April 2008