UI UX Design

“ Interaction design ” is not a fresh term in the design industry. While batches of Rookies are flocking in this industry with questions about this term. For example,  what is interaction design and what are its principles?  How’s it work and what’s the interaction design progress? Interaction design , often abbreviated as IxD, is “the practice of designing interactive digital products, environments, systems, and services.” While the digital side of this statement is true, interaction design is also useful when creating physical (non-digital) products, exploring how a user might interact with it. Common topics of interaction design include design, human–computer interaction, and software development. While interaction design has an interest in form (similar to other design fields), its main area of focus rests on behavior. Rather than analyzing how things are, interaction design synthesizes and imagines things as they could be. This element of interaction design is what c...

Here are several most commonly-seen mistakes in interaction design process: 1. Immediately start to drawing when the product manager put forward a needs. 2. Check competitor products during the design process while there is no specific category. 3. Be obsessed with some design details too much 4. Submit a design scheme without any design process but only results. Mistakes above may lead to consequences below: 1. Getting lost in problem solving or linger on the surface of the problem forever. 2. Relying too much on brainstorming without theory guidance. 3.Often being challenged by others but cannot convince them with objective reasons. 4. Having trouble with assess the value and effect of the design Designers can follow the process below to comb the needs and put forward well-founded and scientific design scheme. Step1: business direction. In business direction, the most important thing is to understanding the needs and specify design standard. Only when w...

Before I introduce the interaction design thinking process, I prefer to point out two common mistakes firstly that may lead your interaction design into a dead-end. 1.Design just by imitating I do not say that referring to good competing products is not right. As a reminder, I mean that if you begin to draw something on a  prototyping tool “just by”imitating existed products rather than something in your mind, you are in fact getting yourself hopelessly trapped in a negative thinking set. Maybe someone you know got successful in this way, but believe me, the possibility that things could go wrong is far more overwhelming than the chance that you are the one. 2. Never look before leap I often recall the time I became an interaction designer. I was young and full of creativity at that time. But as a senior designer, when I look back into the old days, I suddenly realize that something is not right. I had wasted too much time on the flow charts. It’s a natural weakness o...