Summary of Complete Beginners Guide To Interaction Design

"Interaction Design bridges the gap between man and machine"

http://www.uxbooth.com/blog/complete-beginners-guide-to-interaction-design/


This article basically tells you the basic info of interaction design and a few things interaction designers should be aware of and what they should do while designing.
Interactive design hasn't got a long history and it's all about the interaction between users and machines.

5 concepts of IxD

• Goal-Driven Design - It is essential to know what the users' goals are before designing. And this is the constraints designers have, which need to be considered in order to meet the users' needs.
• "Interface As Magic" - The best interaction designs should be simple, easy and unnoticeable, because users don't necessarily think of the interfaces when using the website.
• Usability - Should be easy to use and understand in order to give users to get what they want easily.
• Affordances - The functionality behind a website or service gives the best interaction designs. It should look like what it is.
• Learnability - Familiar components are important for a usable interface, and interaction designers should make interface learnable.

Interaction Designers do...

• From/inform a design strategy - Designers need to know who she's designing for and what their goals are in order to design a usable interaction.
  
• Identify and wireframe key interactions - Design and sketch out the interactions wanted.
  
• Prototype interactions - might include XHTML/CSS, prototypes, and paper prototypes.
  
• Stay current - Keep explore new interactions from the web. Be aware of the industry.
  

My portrait

This is the first time I play this game, and it's actually fun:)



We can play it online and send it to other friends, see if it come out as an interesting monster:P
http://www.drawandfoldover.com/

And this is actually a very good flash website itself too.

useful websites

One of the good points of using twitter is I got to know some interesting and useful websites from other people from the industry

Here are some I looked at recently:

• 17 Websites that all web designers and developers should know
http://veryinspirational.com/blog/web-design-blog/2010/10/06/17-websites-that-all-web-designers-and-developers-should-know/

• 50+ Beautiful Flash Websites for Your Inspiration
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/beautiful-flash-websites-for-your-inspiration/

• 40 Must See Cool Short Animation Websites
http://dzineblog.com/2010/09/40-must-see-cool-short-animation-websites.html

Holga 135

Second roll of my Holga 135 camera.

Photos through out my first year uni life, from Dec 2009 to Jul 2010.









http://www.flickr.com/photos/salome_liu/sets/72157624351781883/

I am getting use to this camera now. This second roll came out better than I thought which I was quite satisfied.

Nove Drink Advert

Can't find it on youtube. Click the link if you can't see:-
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTc0NDU3ODg4.html

very cool pixilation.
I wonder how did they do the street graffiti thing. Use a desolated area or something?

DP2 Moving Images - Film Ambient Vapour

Our film is finally done!

Ambient Vapour


I am quite pleased with it. As it is our first "professionally-done film", I would say it worked quite well.
There were a few feedback last seminar about our film that could be improved-

• Too many zoom in's-

Some of the zooming in was meaningless, it's not necessarily needed,

Zoom in shots should be done in 3 separate shots instead of 1 continuous zoomed in shot, so the scene could be clearer

• The audio was good, but Jools suggested us to put the mystery music in some other part of the film as well, so the mystery feel continues as the film goes along.
• Repeated some scenes, as the film was inverse, repeat some scene will make the film clearer and makes more sense

filming

Storyboard

Scene 9


New Scene



behind the scene