Chapter 3. Interaction Design Basics

No matter what approach an interaction designer uses, the basic materials involved in solutions, such as motion, space, and time, remain the same. Likewise, the principles and ideas that guide and inform the design process also are the same: the "laws" such as Fitts' and Hick's, the Poka-Yoke Principle, feedback and feedforward, and direct and indirect manipulation.

We'll start with the building blocks of interaction design: the basic set of resources that interaction designers have to manipulate.