Basics Interactive Design: Interface Design

Dave Wood is a UK-based digital design and visual communication lecturer. He is completing a practice-based PhD at Edinburgh College of Art, researching interaction design from a visual communication perspective.

Introduction
Chapter 1: Visual communication: a standard in designing interaction; Communication; Designing for interactive flow; Users are king (you are not); Interview: Steve Krug; Case study: We Print Paper website

Chapter 2: Finding the flow: designing interaction; Graphical user interfaces; Information architecture; Hierarchical structures; Testing, testing: early design iterations; Interview: Greg Gibson; Case study: Testing of VedderPrice.com’s visual hierarchy; Exercise: Finding the flow

Chapter 3: Graphic design for digital media; Gridding interactivity; Type as interface; Colouring the screen; Imagery and the pixel; Iconography and metaphor; Going with the motion; Interview: Mike Kus; Case study: Designing a Blu-ray DVD UI; Exercise: Visually communicating interactivity

Chapter 4 Designing the aesthetic user experience; Design and the user; Content copy and the user; UI semiotics; Internationalization; Interview: Kristin Kramer; Case study: WorldSkills interactive kiosk; Exercise: Deconstructing UI semiotics

Chapter 5: Collaborating with the developer; The principles of designing modularity; Modularizing the aesthetic; Interview: Alan Bridge; Case study: Preparing a website design for a developer; Exercise: Outlining modularity

Chapter 6: Augmenting human capabilities through interfaces; QR codes – print meets interaction; Augmented interaction; The touch-screen world; Interview: Kate HoCase study: Designing the BBC iPlayer iPhone app; Exercise: Concept design for an AR smartphone app

Conclusion; Glossary; Index