From the course: UX Foundations: Interaction Design

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- [Narrator] Once we interact, it is the product's turn to react. Its response to what we've done is important and useful feedback. Feedback is a critical step in this interaction design model, because it ultimately helps us understand if we've used the product correctly and if it will help us reach our goal. Feedback occurs in three stages. First is an immediate response to our interaction. The product acknowledges that we've done something. When a product doesn't respond to our interactions in the way or in the time we expect, we may think it's frozen, stuck, or broken. We may even think we've done something wrong. We use interface signals such as hovers and rollovers to acknowledge where we are focused, down states to acknowledge clicks and taps, transitions for size, rotation, and location to guide attention, modal layers and dialogues that appear when needed or requested, and even sound to confirm an action.…

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