Interactive Design Definition

Interactive Design is built on story telling and creating. It is about creating experiences for others in order for them to respond. The bottom line is that interactive design is powered by people; it needs user input in order for it to function.

The term interaction can be referred to as a for

m of communication, either one-on-one (telephone call), one-to-many (YouTube) or many-to-many (the Internet). Interactive experiences can be in any medium such as live performances and services, but primarily centres around technology. The discipline aims to define the behaviour of these complex systems which enable user interaction.

"Interactive design is concerned with a user, customer, audience or participant's experience flow through time... Interactivity is concerned with being part of the action of a system or performance..."

Nathan Shedroff

Related Links:

Nathan Shedroff- Information Interaction Design: A Unified Field Theory of Design

http://www.nathan.com/thoughts/unified/3.html

Bill Verplank Interview from Bill Morridge's "Designing Interactions"

http://www.youtube.com/watch>v=C3rxCLhzmXY

Gillian Crampton Smith Interview from Bill Morridge's 

"Designing Interactions"

http://designinginteractions.com/interviews/GillianCramptonSmith