. This broad
view of interaction design includes the work of human-computer
interaction (HCI) professionals, computer scientists, software
engineers, cognitive psychologists, sociologists, cultural
anthropologists, and designers. It includes everyone who has the
knowledge and tools that allow them to “create or contrive for a
particular purpose or effect”9 in this digital context, sometimes as
an individual, but usually as part of an interdisciplinary team

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A narrow definition
of interaction design is:
“The design of the subjective
and qualitative aspects of
everything that is both digital
and interactive.”

A broad definition
of interaction design is:
‘The design of everything that is
both digital and interactive.”


Narrow & Broad Definition of Interaction Design

Broad View of Interaction Design

The designer is working in the artificial context of
bits, pixels, input devices, users’ conceptual models, and organizing
metaphors. 

This is a narrow version of interaction
design, related to the experience and background of other design
disciplines that deal in aesthetics and qualitative values, like
industrial design, graphic design, and architecture. It is the
equivalent of these disciplines in that the first concern of the
designer is the values of the people who will use the design—the
aesthetics, subjective and qualitative values, and human factors.
The designer creates a solution to give pleasure and lasting
satisfaction, and hence to fit the market, business, and social
requirements.

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