“The Interaction Design Group (IxDG) is an international community of people who are practicing, teaching, and studying interaction design.” (About IxDG) – courtesy of nick finck

“Interaction design is the art of facilitating or instigating interactions between humans (or their agents), mediated by products.” (Dan Saffer) – courtesy of elearningpost

“Interaction designers are famous for complaining about products that are poorly designed, and wishing they had the opportunity to redesign them. In this article, Dave Cronin reminds us that there are many well-designed products out there, too. He offers a selection of products you can use today that do a good job of meeting Dave’s criteria for ‘good’ design.” (Dave Cronin – Cooper)

“Online journalism needs better design for active readers rather than passive consumers. The author’s research indicates that Web content can be made far more meaningful and useful through better use of interactivity, or ‘productive interaction’.” (Online Journalism Review) – courtesy of lucdesk

A conversation with Alan Kay, Marvin Minsky, Seymour Papert and Allison Druin – “We are behaving like a society that had just invented writing and let each child have a pencil for an hour a day.” (Washington Post)

“One of the most significant realities about offshore developers is that they will build exactly what you tell them to build. This is both good and bad news.” (Dave Cronin – Cooper Newsletter)

“Progressive disclosure is an interaction design technique that sequences information and actions across several screens in order to reduce feelings of overwhelm for the user.” (Frank Spiller – Demystifying Usability) – courtesy of design by fire

“Use cases are widely used in large projects to capture the functional requirements of software systems. In the hands of interaction designers, use cases can serve as a powerful tool for brainstorming workflows and bridging the gaps between design and development.” (Henrik Olsen – guuui)

“Technical writers are oft-forgotten constituents in the product development cycle. Although they are rarely tasked with participating in product requirements definition and product design, technical writers are in a unique position to affect product design. However, they will find that subtlety and subterfuge are sometimes necessary to make a politically correct impact in an organization that has not embraced interaction design as a formal part of the development process.” (Steve Calde – Cooper)

“Multimedia technology offers instructional designers an unprecedented opportunity to create richly interactive learning environments. With greater design freedom comes complexity. The standard answer to the problems of too much choice, disorientation, and complex navigation is thought to lie in the way we design the interactivity in a system.” (David Kirsh)

“Responsibility for many e-commerce problems lies with designers. Responsibility for others lies with engineers, marketers, managers, and executives who are willing to accept mediocrity or worse.” (Bruce Tognazzini – AskTog) – courtesy of lawrence lee

“It may seem I’m damning Apple with faint praise, considering how much bad I have mentioned. Actually, nothing could be further from the truth. Apple is indeed back. OS X is a fully-usable powerhouse once more, with a free and open future. I’m giving Apple some free advice, from someone whose advice is normally screamingly expensive, on where to go from here. The way is open.” (Bruce ‘Tog’ Tognazzini – AskTog)

“When you come up with improved designs, take it upon yourself to test how they work. Formulate your own test plan and try them out under a variety of conditions. If the engineering process is so badly broken that changing the old designs will almost certainly make things worse, back off on how much you want to change in each release and work with your engineers to do more informal QA testing before the release is assembled.” (Bruce Tognazzini – AskTog) – courtesy of vanderwal

“(…) a blog and resource site created by the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea to explore interaction design. Interaction design takes place at the connection of technology and personal interaction with products, environments, spaces, platforms, services, social networks. The Hub offers a place for discussion and reflection about the state of interaction design today.” (Interaction Design Institute Ivrea)

“Interaction design is, now more than ever, a critical resource for business strategy. A growing gap exists between companies’ increasing knowledge of technology and taking products to market, and their decreasing understanding of people’s everyday needs and wants for interaction with media, services and physical products, all of which are increasingly embedded with digital interactive technology.” (HITS 2003)

“Focusing on the motivations and goals behind the behaviors in the workflows keep designers from getting bogged down in the complexity of the problem, paving the way for the delivery of solutions that enable practitioners to deliver the best care possible.” (Cooper Newsletter)

“We’re here to create a home for interaction designers — what type of home that will be, we do not yet know. Whether we find or build our home, though, it must address the issues and challenges that the many hundreds of us face in our jobs.” (Challis Hodge et al.) – courtesy of xblog

“Computers and users process information in distinct ways — so do individual users. Although it’s relatively easy to get a computer to understand input, what with fixed standards and universal APIs, usability with human users is not absolute. User interface usability is relative to the experience level of individual users. UI designer Mike Padilla provides an overview of UI design for Web-based productivity software with a focus on the broadest range of users, examining what makes an application UI usable and detailing concepts that can facilitate an efficient, broad-based UI design.” (Mike Padilla – IBM developerWorks) – courtesy of webword