The document introduces interaction design as a process focused on creating user-oriented qualities of digital artifacts within constraints. It discusses design methods, communication in design, and references various works related to research-based design processes. The content is aimed at understanding the principles and methodologies associated with interaction design.

1. Introduction to
Interaction Design
IFI7313.DT Interaction Design Methods

3. “Interaction design refers to the
process that is arranged within
the existing resource constraints
to create, shape, and decide
all use-oriented qualities
(structural, functional, ethical,
and aesthetic) of a digital
artifact for one or many
clients.”
(Löwgren & Stolterman, 2007)

5. Design as a process

6. problem solution
divergence convergence

7. Wicked problems

8. Research-based design process
(Leinonen, Toikkanen, & Silfvast, 2008)

9. Design as a communication

10. Brown, D. M. (2010). Communicating
Design: Developing Web Site
Documentation for Design and
Planning. Berkeley, CA: New Riders.
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11. References
• Leinonen, T., Toikkanen, T., & Silvfast, K. (2008). Software as Hypothesis:
Research-Based Design Methodology. In Proceedings of the Tenth Anniversary
Conference on Participatory Design 2008 (pp. 61–70). Indianapolis, IN:
Indiana University.
• Löwgren, J., & Stolterman, E. (2007). Thoughtful Interaction Design: A Design
Perspective on Information Technology. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

12. Photos
• Juhan Sonin, http://www.flickr.com/photos/juhansonin/5135576565/

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IFI7313.DT Interaction Design Methods
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Tallinn University
School of Digital Technologies