Who is this workshop for?

This workshop is for intermediate to experienced designers who want to deepen their knowledge of interaction design beyond wireframes and personas. Dan guides participants to a better understanding of the design process with a deep dive into model making, ideation, creating design principles, innovating your design process, and prototyping.

How UXI IxD Works:

Since it is difficult to teach interaction design any other way, Interaction Design Day at UXI is a hands-on, studio approach to refining your interaction design skills. Each section of the day takes a part of the design process and provides a brief presentation, a case study, then an exercise to try out the techniques and ideas presented. It is an intense day of model making, brainstorming, and prototyping.

This workshop covers:

• Turning your research data into Things to Think With that you can then begin to design from.
• Using what you know from research to create Design Principles that guide this design—and the inevitable redesigns.
• Ideation. How should we come up with new ideas? And once we have them, how do we sort and choose among them? How much risk should we take with new ideas?
• Innovating your design methods. New products require new methods. How do you go about revamping your process to suit the needs of innovative products?
• Fixing broken products: We don't always get to design products from scratch—in fact we seldom do. How do we evaluate an existing product and go about fixing it? Case Study: Microsoft's Office 2007.
• Prototyping. What kind of prototype should you develop, and when? What is appropriate to show, and to whom?

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