Stacey Daschner

This was a very thought-provoking presentation. It brought up excellent points that I really have never thought about. I think it perfectly relates to what we are doing in this class: designing interactive media. The main point, I thought was the question “How is interactive design different from print design?” Koi talked about how the main aspect of design is control. We must have control over how the piece looks, the typography, and how we want the viewer to perceive the piece. To me at least, designing for print is just for show, for the viewer to look at and analyze. Interactive designing takes so much more into consideration. Koi states that behavior is the most important aspect of interactive design. Controlling the behavior of the media is so important to both the designer and the user. Many people may know the technology well and how it works and the latest trends, etc, but they lack the design experience. That makes for half of a good user experience. As for us, we need to concentrate on the behavior of our websites and make sure they accurately cater to the targeted users. I really liked the class discussion because we came up with so many more ideas than just a few of us would come up with. I think we should do that for every step of this process so that we can all participate in every step and really get a feel for the whole process of discovering, planning, prototyping, executing, and evaluating.