Communicopia

I recently attended a workshop that was part of the User Experience Intensive put on by Adaptive Path here in Vancouver. Day three of a four-day intensive, it was all about Interaction Design, a relatively new field that draws on the information architecture, communication (or graphic) design, user-experience design, and usability engineering, among others. As I learned, the point of interaction design is to create better experiences by better designing how people interact with things—cars, cell phones, coffee makers, or websites. The ultimate goal is to improve how people are able to interact with each other through these products.