Interactive Design?! Design with Interaction!? Interacting with Design?!

Interactive Design

Interactive design is simply the behaviour of products and systems which allows interaction with its users. Also known as interaction design, interactive design attempts to improve communication and interaction between users with the help of evolving technology. Interactive design can also be interpreted as the process of designing a visual application, intended to cater to a specific target audience and/or market. The aim of interaction design was to minimize learning time and to increase the efficiency and accuracy of a task without losing effectiveness. It was designed to reduce user frustration and increase efficiency and satisfaction of users. The director of Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Gillian Crampton Smith said during an interview on January 30, 2002 that: "If I were to sum up interaction design in a sentence, I would say that it's about shaping our everyday life through digital artifacts - for work, for play, and for entertainment."

Works Cited
Smith, Gillian Crampton. "What Is Interaction Design?". Foreword. Page xi. 10 March 2009.

Here we go! Some Web Two.Zero!

Web 2.0 Examples

Web 2.0 has introduced the development and evolution of numerous web based communities. From hosted services and social networking sites to the many different wikis and blogs found all over the internet, the web is continuously developing.

Several examples include:

• Flickr – www.flickr.com
  Flickr is an example of a hosted service website which allows for photo sharing. It can be used for personal online storage and sharing with contacts. A similar site would be YouTube (www.youtube.com) which acts as a host for people to upload videos and allows others to view.
  

• Wikipedia – en.wikipedia.org
  Wikipedia is the perfect example of Web 2.0 technology creating an interaction between the website and the community. Wikipedia is an online information source which allows the community to collaborate and contribute to the content found on the website.

• MySpace – www.myspace.com
  MySpace is basically a website for social networking. It allows people to communicate with one another using the web. MySpace is simple one of the few examples of the craze over social networks in the last few years. Other examples include Bebo (www.bebo.com) and Facebook (www.facebook.com)

The image below contains logos of Web 2.0 examples