Interaction Design is a field and approach to designing interactive experiences. These could be in any medium, not only digital media. Interactive experiences, necessarily, require time as an organizing principle (though not exclusively) and Interactive Design is concerned with a user, customer, audience, or participant's experience flow through time. Interactivity should not be confused with animation in which objects may move on a screen; interactivity is concerned with being part of the action of a system or performance and not merely watching the action passively.
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To you who are toiling over an AJAX- and Ruby-powered social software product, good luck, God bless, and have fun. Remember that 20 other people are working on the same idea.
Zeldman, Jeffrey. List Apart, A (2006). Design>Web Design>Interaction Design>Ajax
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When users visit your web site, their immediate impression of its credibility is based on appearance, colors, text fonts. Then, as they explore your site, other factors contribute to its credibility impact. Lose users here, and they probably will never return.
Streight, Steven. Blogger.com (2004). Articles>Web Design>User Centered Design>Interaction Design
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Web Interactivity: Connecting People and Knowledge
We humans are wired to seek interaction with other people. Complex language and reasoning powers support your interactive nature. Your brain can retrieve and store unlimited amounts of information from everyday interactions and use that information to think, analyze, and solve complex problems.
Girolami, Frank. Between the Lines (2007). Articles>Web Design>Interaction Design>User Centered Design
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Web Site Designs: Influences of Designer's Expertise and Design Constraints
Nowadays, much research examines both the cognitive difficulties encountered by web site users and the development of ergonomic guidelines for designers. However, few studies examine designers’ cognitive functioning while designing web sites. We defend the idea that determining the difficulties web site designers encounter is necessary to better support their design activities, especially in making web sites easier to use. We present an experimental study that demonstrates that the designers’ levels of expertise (novice and professional) as well as the design constraints that clients prescribe influences both the number and the nature of constraints designers articulate and respect in their web site designs. Based on our study findings, we suggest ways to better support web site designers.
Chevaliera, Aline and Melody Y. Ivory. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, The (2003). Design>Human Computer Interaction
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Well-Behaved DHTML: A Case Study
It’s no secret that over the last few years DHTML has been used almost exclusively for evil purposes. Users associate the technology with intrusive advertisements and error-prone pages, while developers associate it with browser detection and hideous hacks.
Boodman, Aaron. SitePoint (2003). Design>Web Design>Interaction Design>DHTML
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Amid the current hype of Web 2.0, rich has become the de facto buzzword suggesting fresh, sexy digital products, often marked by glossy buttons with AJAX-driven behaviors. But what does rich mean to a UI (user interface) designer who wants to craft intelligent, compelling, and memorable interactions? Given current digital and technological trends, today's UI designers must deepen their understanding of richness. Such an effort will strengthen designers' vocabularies (adding legitimacy and weight to client discussions), and enable designers to temper judgment when it comes to applying rich capabilities.
Gajendar, Uday. Boxes and Arrows (2007). Articles>Web Design>Interaction Design
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What is Interaction Design, and What Does It Mean to Information Designers?
Where did the term interaction design come from? What exactly does it mean? And what do the people who call themselves interaction designers actually do?
Marion, Craig. Verizon (1999). Design>Web Design>Interaction Design
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What Puts the Design in Interaction Design
Interaction design lies at the junction of several design disciplines. The resulting crossover between various specialties and issues is often muddled, understandably. There is no doubt that interaction design, as a design discipline, differs from applied human-computer interaction and cognitive psychology. These distinctions are omnipresent in the current literature.
Silver, Kevin. UXmatters (2007). Articles>User Experience>Interaction Design
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What's Wrong with (Almost) All Web Sites
The vast majority of web sites commit usability and design violations that make it hard for users to find relevant content and functions. These problems are not difficult to diagnose or remedy. How many of these "user crimes" is your web site guilty of committing?
Streight, Steven. Blogger.com (2004). Articles>Web Design>User Interface>Interaction Design
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Where Do Product Managers Fit?
People often ask how interaction designers should fit into their companies. If the company cannot take good advantage of it, the most brilliant interaction design in the world won't help as much as simple, workmanlike interaction design will benefit a company that uses that design well.
Korman, Jonathan. Internet Corner (2004). Design>Project Management>Interaction Design
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Winning Considerations for Interactive Content
User interface designers have more interactive options than ever for presenting content. So, we can make meaningful strides toward offering users the right content in the right place, at the right time, in the right amount. However, these rich options for interactively presenting content also come with a challenge.
Jones, Colleen. UXmatters (2008). Articles>Web Design>Interaction Design
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XML in the Browser: Submitting Forms using AJAX
AJAX opens up enormous possibilities for Web applications simply by allowing HTTP requests to be made in the background asynchronously (while other scripts on the page run and other user activity continues).
Root, Chris. Dev Articles (2005). Design>Web Design>Interaction Design>Ajax
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A series of links to Russian-language resources in human-computer interaction.
HCI.ru (2001). (Russian) Design>Human Computer Interaction
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我们常常看到这样的新闻报道：飞机坠毁夺走了好几百人的生命，某次工业事故导致几百万英镑的损失，某新发现的系统医疗错误致使数千病患重返医院。几个月后，公布的调查结果如下：操作机器设备时的人为错误导致了这些事故。人们使用‘人为错误’一词来表达‘操作上的错误’，而经常的情况是，这些‘人为错误’ 根本就是机器设备的人机界面设计或安装上本身固有的问题。低劣的人机界面会导致使用效率降低或者容易发生错误，严重的则会造成财产和生命损失。
Dix, Alan. uiGarden (2005). (Chinese) Articles>Human Computer Interaction>Usability>User Centered Design
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Zebra Striping: More Data for the Case
I recently conducted a study into the helpfulness (or lack thereof) of zebra striping—the shading of alternate rows in a table or form. The study measured performance as users completed a series of tasks and found no statistically significant improvement in accuracy—and very little statistically significant improvement in speed when zebra stripes were implemented.
Enders, Jessica. List Apart, A (2008). Articles>Web Design>Human Computer Interaction>User Interface
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Premium Rate Culture: The New Business of Mobile Interactivity 
This article considers a neglected but crucial aspect of the new business of mobile interactivity: the premium rate data services industry. It provides an international anatomy of this industry model and the ways in which it has been used to capitalize upon the surprising success of short message service (SMS) to provide a basis for the development of consumer markets for mobile data services. It situates this analysis within a wider consideration of the role of premium rate culture in the social shaping of interactivity in convergent media. Specifically, it looks at how premium rate services are being constructed in relation to telecommunications, television and the internet. The article concludes that although premium rate culture has rejuvenated innovation in broadcast television, potentially it may constrain the interactive potential of the mobile internet.
Goggin, Gerard and Christina Spurgeon. New Media and Society (2007). Articles>Business Communication>Wireless Web>Interaction Design
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jQuery-Based Popout Ad: Part 1
Today I’d like to start an article series of three parts, the result of which will be a popout-style, jQuery-based box like the one pictured above, which I think strikes a nice balance on the obtrusion-scale.
Glazebrook, Rob L. CSSnewbie (2008). Articles>Web Design>Interaction Design>Ajax
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jQuery-Based Popout Ad: Part 2
We're going to take the ad we built last week and animate it, as well as provide the user with a means to open and close the ad. We’ll be using jQuery for most of what we do, so you’ll need to include the jQuery library script at the top of your document for this to work (see the source of the example page to see how this is done).
Glazebrook, Rob L. CSSnewbie (2008). Articles>Web Design>Interaction Design>Ajax
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Generating Automatic Website Footnotes with jQuery
Generating footnotes for HTML documents in the past was always a slow, painful task — and every time I did it, I wondered why there wasn’t a better, easier way. Today, I’m happy to announce that I’ve come up with a better solution to web footnotes using the jQuery JavaScript framework and a few tags and attributes that already exist in XHTML.
Glazebrook, Rob L. CSSnewbie (2008). Articles>Web Design>Interaction Design>Ajax
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Show/Hide Content with CSS and JavaScript
Today’s tutorial will show you how to hide away extra bits of content using CSS and JavaScript, to be revealed at the click of a button. This is a great technique, because displaying the additional content doesn’t require a refresh or navigation to a new page and all your content is still visible to search engine bots that don’t pay any attention to CSS or JavaScript.
Glazebrook, Rob L. CSSnewbie (2008). Articles>Web Design>Interaction Design>CSS
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Abuse has made me seriously consider – several times – disabling comments. I’m ambivalent about it. On the one hand it would make writing and publishing much easier. Write something, proofread it, publish.
Johansson, Roger. 456 Berea Street (2007). Articles>Web Design>Community Building>Interaction Design
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Parse JSON with jQuery and JavaScript
While exploring the options for traversing JSON, I discovered that there is no official W3C documentation, or even a draft. As a subset of the ECMAScript language specification, it will probably remain under the governance of ECMA International. So unlike XPath, which is a commonly accepted language for traversing XML, JSON must rely on JavaScript’s object notation.
Reindel, Brian. d'bug (2008). Articles>Web Design>Interaction Design>Ajax
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Creating Modular Interactive User Interfaces with JavaScript
Discover a technique that lets you move sections of a Web page using drag-and-drop functions. Different aspects of the interactivity are implemented separately and then composed into a unified whole, allowing for flexible customization that can make your Web users very happy.
Travis, Greg. IBM (2008). Articles>Web Design>Interaction Design>JavaScript
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Web 2.0: A Very Short Introduction
A profound change is happening on the cutting-edge of web development: we are relinquishing control of information. No longer are sites working independently from each other; no longer is information sitting in isolation with no interaction between sites. Rather, the best web programmers are now creating sites that allow information to be reused anywhere.
Mercurytide (2005). Articles>Web Design>Interaction Design>Social Networking
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Design Decisions vs. Audience Considerations
Deep down below the layers of interface, CSS, HTML, and XML—down where only the geekiest among us roam—everything comes down to this: it’s all zeroes and ones. On or off. The digital switch Though interaction and conversion becomes a bit more complicated at the point the interface meets the visitor, though there are a few more shades of gray, in the end it comes down to the same thing: yes or no.
Ragle-Davis, Robin. Digital Web Magazine (2008). Articles>Web Design>Interaction Design>Audience Analysis
