Additional Workshop - Designing for Interaction

Designers take note: we’ve just added in a fifth workshop to the Web Directions program. Dan Saffer of Adaptive Path is now going to be teaching his new workshop Designing for Interaction - Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices on Tuesday the 26th September.

This broad and deep examination of the discipline of interaction design will feature activities and seminars that take participants from the prehistoric roots of interaction design to its future in transmedia interactions, ubiquitous computing, and digital tools for making digital tools.

This is a day not to be missed for anyone interested in design, focussing as it will not just on design as it applies to the web, but how web design fits into the broader discipline.

Starting with a brief history of interaction design, the workshop will cover the four approaches to interaction design; the elements, principles, and attributes of good interaction design; design research techniques; documentation; designing for multitasking, adaptation, and hacking; and service design.

Designing for Interaction is for new designers and anyone interested in interaction design, as well as more experienced designers who want a deeper view of and new methods for practicing interaction design. Participants will walk away with not only a firm grasp of the underlying principles of interaction design, but also the tools to put those into practice.

Dan Saffer has worked in interactive media since 1995 as a webmaster, information architect, copywriter, developer, producer, creative lead, and interaction designer. Currently, he is an interaction designer at the design firm Adaptive Path and is the author of the book Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices (New Riders, 2006).

The deal

All Web Directions workshops are $395 all inclusive when purchased with a ticket to WD06, or $495 for workshop only. Read more about Dan’s workshop, or Register Now.