From the course: UX Foundations: Interaction Design

Project types and deliverables

From the course: UX Foundations: Interaction Design

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Project types and deliverables

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- [Narrator] Interaction designers are most often associated with web and mobile design, but we work on much more than that. Any product with an interface between the product and the people who use it benefits from a strong interaction design approach. Interfaces themselves are much more diverse than the pixels on screens of laptops and smartphones. It's common today for people to use touch screens, spatial gestures, voice, and even traditional physical controls. If people are interacting with the product then an interaction designer should be involved. Interaction design is also more than just drawing the interface and deciding the best ways to display information. It's about designing for the entire interconnected system, the device, the interface, the context, the environment, and the people. In the course of our work we contribute to or create many different types of documents and design artifacts that capture and organize the information we need, the ideas we have and the descriptions of the people, products, flows, systems and services and more. We work closely with researchers to help understand people and problems. We work closely with engineers and developers to understand the technical constraints and opportunities. We work closely with product managers and business leaders to identify opportunities and solutions. And we work closely with other designers to coordinate the different efforts into a cohesive product design. An important part of your work as an interaction designer is to identify what a project needs. What do we already know, what do we need to learn? What do we need to explore? What do we need to ask, observe or measure, choose the methods and documents that are most appropriate for your project and which are best for capturing and conveying the problems, insights and solutions. Finally, the deliverables and artifacts we create are living documents. They evolve and change as our understanding of the people, the problems and the product solutions change.

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