Useful links
This page lists useful links for students on the Interaction Design programme at IUAV University of Venice. Please let us know if these become dead.
GENERAL
Long running and important comment on ‘what is new technology for?’
http://www.doorsofperception.com/
Live|Work Service Design. Live|Work have pioneered service design as a design activity.
http://www.livework.co.uk/home.html
Interaction Design Association: a lot of interesting discusssions and resources
http://www.ixda.org/
Rather sharp blog on interaction design!
http://www.odannyboy.com/blog/archives/001000.html
Looks good, works well
Looks Good Works Well: Storyboarding Interesting Moments
http://looksgoodworkswell.blogspot.com/2005/11/interaction-matrix.html
We make money not art: design/technology/art
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/009123.php
Interaction Design Foundation: free learning materials in English written by well-known authors. www.interaction-design.org
TECHNIQUES
Service design
http://www.livework.co.uk Pioneering design company set up by RCA graduates in 2001
www.enginegroup.co.uk Information and discussions about service design
http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/en/About-Design/Design-Disciplines/Service-design-by-Bill-Hollins/ Article describing service design
http://www.servicedesigntools.org Collection of tools for service design
http://www.service-innovation.org Service design blog
Working with users
Cooper on personas (his company invented the name)http://www.cooper.com/content/insights/newsletters_personas.asp
Working with users for service design
http://courses.interaction-ivrea.it/zoom/CirclesOfCare/index.html
IDEO’s methods cards
www.ideo.com/methodcards/MethodDeck/
Jane Fulton Suri, Marion Buchenau: Experience prototyping
http://www.ideo.com/media/info.asp?x=6
Michael Muller: Participatory design methods https://hec.unil.ch/docs/files/53/322/ch7-_participatory_design_muller.pdf
Bill Gaver, Tony Dunne, Elena Pacenti: Cultural Probes
ACM Interactions Magazine February 1999
Flowcharting
Introduction to User Interface Flow Diagrams (UI Storyboards)
‘Quick and dirty’ video prototyping
http://insitu.lri.fr/imuseum/symposium1-results.html
Hill and Houde: "What do prototypes Prototype?"
http://www.viktoria.se/fal/kurser/winograd-2004/Prototypes.pdf
Futures scenarios
http://www.vodafone.com/flash/futures/index.jsp (unfortunately dead--though the link is still on the site
http://www.design.philips.com:80/about/design/section-13482/index.html
Information architecture tools
http://iainstitute.org/en/learn/tools.php
INFORMATION VISUALISATION
(see Information visualisation references page
SOME NICE INTERACTIONS
Fresh interfaces for architects
http://www.intentionallies.co.jp/content_normal.html
http://www.andreescu-gaivoronski.com/and_gaiv.htm
Magical mystery tour
http://99rooms.terracontent.de/99rooms/99rooms.html
Flikr clock
http://www.quasimondo.com/clockr.php
Rijksmuseum: a beautiful light, delicate, pleasurable experience—a widget for the Macintosh
http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/aria/aria_assets/SK-C-210?lang=en
Elegant loading animation
http://www.sekisuiheim.com/desio-ae/
Animation sketch style
http://www.loworks.org/