Great examples of Interactive Design





Dontclick.it is a great example of interactive design. It is an experimental site where the user interface does not involve any clicks of the mouse. It challenges the user to go through the site using cursor movement alone. It involves various methods for selection and navigation that are all clearly displayed, and interestingly thought out.



Musicovery is a website that uses a simple interface to provide music for anyone in any mood, and genre. The user picks the genre, the era and the dance to tempo ratio and the site plays music which fits into the category. It shows a chart showing the relationship between the song you are listening to and the ones around it. It is a fun way to discover new music, and play what you like where ever you can connect to the web.



Kongregate is a site featuring an astounding array of flash-based games, in many different genres and game types. It also allows people to chat with one another in game and provides achievements and high-score recording to give people more of an incentive to play the games harder and for longer. The site is very well set up and provides great interaction with in games and between people.

What is interactive design?

Wikipedia says Interaction Design is:

Interaction Design (IxD) defines the structure and behavior of interactive products and services. Interaction Designers create compelling relationships between people and the interactive systems they use, from computers to mobile devices to appliances; Interaction Designers lay the groundwork for intangible experiences.

Interactive Design is the design of spaces for human interaction in everyday and working environments. It involves the designing of an information infrastructure, the interface and layout. Interaction design is a crucial because its what allows us to communicate with and use modern electronic devices and computers.

Examples of Web 2.0





Facebook - The successor to MySpace's social networking throne. Still a ways behind in some respects, especially so for Musicians with no audio capabilities comparable to that of MySpace, however with a far greater popularity it is by far the single most used social networking site.
http://facebook.com/



DeviantArt - A site for artists, and designers alike around the world to update their artistic creations. However anyone can up load and there is as much horrible work as there is good.
http://deviantart.com/



Threadless - T-shirt company based in Chicago in the US where the site's users upload artworks and slogans for T-shirts. If the design is picked, a cash prize is awarded along with the chance for people around the world to be wearing your work.
http://threadless.com/



ModDB - An online community dedicated to modding games. Users create posts for their mods allowing other people to comment on them, download them and play test their work.
http://moddb.com