Here’s how to be an excellent interaction designer

With the rise of the digital industry, designing has quickly become a popular profession. The career trend is enticing more people to join the industry (especially now that excellent designers are in demand). And for today, our protagonist is the interaction designer.

What is interaction design?

Interaction design was put forward by the founder of IDEO, Bill Mogridi, in 1984. At the beginning, it was called Softface, then it was renamed as interaction design.

An interaction designer is a profession that focuses on the interaction mechanism between the product and the user. That means the job of the designer is to help users use the product more simply and easily, experience the product more intuitively, and ultimately, feel the value of the product.

Designers are responsible for creating compelling pages and UI, considering logical operations and thoughtful actions. To be successful, one needs to be good at using technology and abide by good interaction rules to create an ideal user experience.

The composition of interaction design

Bob Baxley divided interaction design into five parts:

Human/machine communication – the transmission and translation of information between equipment and users

Operation and feedback – this requires the designer to understand and anticipate how interactions unfold over time, designing for the wide range of permutations that can occur

Status – the presence of a different state to ensure users understand what is happening and why the application gets into this state

Workflow – this lets the user understand who can do what and what will happen next

Failure – failure is bound to occur; it must be considered within

Necessary abilities of an interaction designer

How to become a good designer

Goal: Be a knowledgeable and specialized high-end designer