IxD FTW
Interaction Design for Web Designers
We create Experience when we create web sites. But, despite the growth in technology and tools, a person’s online experience is still very much ensconced in the web-based way of interacting. These limits, real or perceived, are working against web developers. Creating web sites that act like applications means thinking like software designers.
From mental models to dialog etiquette, we can take lessons from Interaction Design and make exponential strides to improve web experiences by learning how software designers determine, define and develop applications. We’ll talk about how to design complex systems that are event-based (web apps) instead of information-based (web sites).
Come spend an hour with Jina Bolton (web design) and Eris Stassi (interaction design) as they take you through core points of HCI and how to translate that knowledge into creating better web experiences.
About Eris Stassi
is an interaction designer with a personal mission for better living through responsible, meaningful, good design. Her career revolves around the small matter of making people happy by redesigning and improving the world.
Currently, she accomplishes this by making software better. Her talents are on loan to Apple Computer in Cupertino where she has worked on Apple’s Aperture, iLife and primarily the iWork suite. She also has the honor of being the brainchild behind the Refresh community and creating the BarCamp branding. Eris resides in San Francisco where she continues to be awesome.
About Jina Bolton
Jina Bolton resides and works in San Francisco as an interaction designer at Crush + Lovely. Previously, she was a visual interaction designer at Apple, Inc. Jina is also a co-author of The Art & Science of CSS.
Jina holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Computer Arts and Graphic Design from Memphis College of Art, and is an active member of AIGA (San Francisco chapter). Jina is currently attending graduate school at Academy of Art University toward a Master of Fine Arts in Computer Arts New Media. She enjoys traveling, is learning Italian, and digs sushi and robots.
