Interactive Design

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Description

Assisting and prompting interaction between people by the use products is what Interactive Design is concerned with. Interactions between people can be one-to-one, one-to-many and/or many-to-many. Interactive Design uses both analogue and digital mediums; these could also be intangible, physical and theoretical products. Interactive Designers are predominantly interested in the behaviour of products, how they work and how us humans will interact and be affected by them. Their main goal is to allow the best facilitation of interaction between the device/product and people.

Example

Good exmplaes of websites that facilitate good interactive design are:

Web 2.0

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Description:
Web 2.0’ is an enhanced version of the World Wide Web which purpose is to foster creativity to its user. Web 2.0 amends the way in which the end users and software developer utilize the web, by using Web 2.0 websites end-users have the freedom to alter and manipulate how they can view and share information on the web, as they are able to input information share their own photos and upload videos and music etc. It promotes innovation on the World Wide Web by allowing the end users to do this with ease, as it is user friendly and allows for interaction with Web 2.0 sites without the use of numerous instructions. Its predominant difference with Web 1.0 is that it is a shared media that offers the utilization if the Internet rather than just viewing it.

Examples:
Examples of web 2.0 include but are not limited to:

Weblogs (blogs) including this one.
Users are able to manipulate the layout of their blogs by adding text, photos, music and videos. Sites like www.blogger.com allow users to add these components with ease.

eBay
Users are able to add listings for online auctions using forms and set templates. The website allows users to add photos of items and text that can be edited.

My Space and Facebook
Both are social networking websites that allows its users to share photos, upload music and videos. Users are also welcome to change set templates and make it thier own by manipulating colour schemes and text types/sizes etc

Information and Instructional Design

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Instructional Design

Instructional Design is a means of finding effective ways in which best to portray media based in the learning needs of the learner and aid the instructor to convey information in an efficient way. Instructional designers are required to verify many different aspects about the learner they are designing for, to cater the right portrayal of instructions, as different learning objectives demand different methods of instruction. Instructional Designers utilize the ADDIE model to develop instructional materials. This model has five phases which are Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Evaluation. Instructions can be portrayed in different forms which are text, pictures and verbal.

Example:

Instructions portrayed visually using pictures

Instructions portrayed by text

Information Design

The organisation of data into comprehensive and logical information for users is known as Information Design. It has come to surface as a reaction to people’s essential need to understand and utilize information such as using a computer interface and completing forms. Its principal focus is about how we humans interpret what we hear and see into coherent information. Is a growing field that branches into graphic design, typography, ergonomics, computing studies, literature etc. Designers primarily consider the skill, purpose, age and preferences of the intended user so that they are able to present information in various forms into structured data in a clear and comprehensible manner. Data is usually structured into hierarchy or instinctive groups that enable users to easily navigate through it, for example in alphabetical order, in categories, location and time. Successful information design allows users to access information with ease and caters towards diverse need of each of these users.

Examples:
· Phone books ( in alphabetical order)

· Street Directories (Alphabetical and Categorised in location)

· http://www.ebay.com/ (Categorised into location, time, types etc)

· http://www.whereis.com/ (Categorised into location)