Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Interactive Design

Interactive Design is the discipline of defining the behaviour of products and systems in which users can interact with. It is the behaviour between the user and the system

These design types can come in many forms such as electrical devices, softwares. You can tell an interactive design is good if the user can easily navigate, interact or control the system/device.

Obviously a lot goes into interactive design, the research process, finding the concept, target marketing, prototyping, evaluating and at some point implementing the designs.

Interactive Design Examples

Some great interactive websites include the wonderful Google and eBay.
These websites allow interaction between user and pc and world wide web.

Google enables users to search the Web, Usenet, and images. Features include PageRank, caching and translation of results, and an option to find similar pages.


Ebay is The World's Online Marketplace, enabling trade on a local, national and international basis. With a diverse and passionate community of individuals and small businesses, eBay offers an online platform where millions of items are traded each day.


There are also devices/objects which allow interaction between user and the object. Some examples of devices/objects can include cell phones, children's toys and also software on computers.

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