Interaction Design

Course Overview

Design process and methodology for designing solutions for interactive products, services and events: Design of integrated systems, products for future use, products to be used in groups, devices used in public places, design of tangible, gestural and expressive interfaces, products that enrich user experience • The course takes an inter-disciplinary approach drawing upon product design, visual communication, information architecture, cognitive psychology and computer science. The course involves exploration of alternative, pushing the envelope of what is known. • The focus is on working collaboratively in groups to solve design problems. The course will involve doing projects. Students need to build soft prototypes of proposed systems at the end of the course. • The course involves learning to critically analyze thoughts and conduct independent Research, to be able to work in teams and collaborate to solve problems, to build confidence in being creative and innovative and be able to think critically. • The course also introduces best practice of documentation and presentation – both oral and written.

Total Credits	6.0
Type	Theory
Lecture	2.0
Tutorial	2.0
Half Semester	N
Text Reference	• De Bono, Edward; Lateral Thinking, A Textbook of Creativity; Penguin Books (2009)• Laurel, Brenda; Computer as Theatre; Addison-Wesley Pub CO (2013)• Mayhew, Deborah J; The Usability Engineering Lifecycle : A Practitioner’s Handbook for user Interface Design; Morgan Kaufmann (1999)• Norman, Donald A; Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is so Complex and Information Appliances Are the Solution; MIT Press (1999)• Raskin, Jef; The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems’ Pearson Education (2000)• Rosenfeld, Louis: Morville, Peter; Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites; O’Reilly & Associate; 2nd edition (27 Nov, 2006)• Tufte, Edward; Envisioning Information; Graphics Press (2003)• Myerson, Jeremy; IDEO: Masters of Innovation, Publisher : teNeues Publishing Company,29 May, 2001• Fay Sweet, Frog: Form Follows Emotion, Cutting Edge,10 May, 1999.

About Instructor

Prof. B.A. Ravi Poovaiah