UX Foundations: Interaction Design

Course details

Engaging, easy-to-use products don't appear fully formed in the minds of designers and product teams: they're the result of careful consideration, exploration, and study. Interaction designers are crucial players in the product design process, because they observe human behavior and use what they've learned to craft products that meet people's specific needs. In this course, join instructor David Hogue as he steps through the foundational processes and techniques required for interaction design. David begins by taking a look at key psychology concepts and how they can help us better understand how our people think, feel, and behave. He then takes a deeper dive into the methods and processes used by interaction designers to create considerate, engaging, and valuable products. Learn about the dimensions of interaction design, design thinking, design patterns, usability and accessibility, and more.

Learning objectives
What is interaction design?
Learning behaviors
Theories of emotion
Designing for delight
Classical and operant conditioning
Using learned behavior
Interface design principles
Design thinking
Defining microinteractions
Error handling
Usability and accessibility

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Interaction design
02 - What is interaction design

1. Today's Interaction Designer

03 - Project types and deliverables
04 - Technical and software skills
05 - Related disciplines and fields of study
06 - Resources and communities

2. A Model of Psychology and Interaction Design

07 - Why psychology
08 - Introducing the interaction design model
09 - Context
10 - Goals

3. Introductory Psychology

11 - Sensation
12 - Perception
13 - Gestalt principles
14 - Affordances
15 - Motivation
16 - Attention and memory
17 - Reasoning and logic
18 - Mental models
19 - Cognitive load
20 - Theories of emotion
21 - Designing for delight
22 - Empathy
23 - Learning behaviors
24 - Classical conditioning
25 - Operant conditioning
26 - Social learning theory
27 - Using learned behavior

4. The Interaction Design Model

28 - Overview of the IxD model
29 - Perceive
30 - Predict
31 - Feedback
32 - Learn
33 - Remember

5. Interaction Design

34 - Dimensions of interaction design
35 - Design thinking
36 - Levels of design - Structure
37 - Levels of design - Flow
38 - Levels of design - Interface
39 - Design patterns
40 - Anti-patterns
41 - Dark patterns
42 - Navigation structure
43 - Navigation systems
44 - Content
45 - Inputs
46 - Gestures
47 - Voice
48 - Sensors
49 - Defining microinteractions
50 - Microinteractions - Motion
51 - Microinteractions - Sound
52 - Microinteractions - Haptics
53 - Error handling
54 - Mistakes
55 - Usability and accessibility

Conclusion

56 - A solid foundation

UX Foundations: Interaction Design

Authors

David Hogue