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<event>
  <city>San Francisco</city>
  <country>USA</country>
  <end-on type="date">2006-09-21</end-on>
  <full-description>Based on Dan Saffer's book "Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices," this workshop on interaction design will feature activities and discussions that take participants from the discipline's prehistoric roots to its future.

This workshop 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.

After this workshop, you will be able to:

*Understand "interaction design" and "interactions"
*Know the history of interaction design
*Use the four approaches to interaction design to create products and services
*Work with the "laws" and principles of interaction design
*Know what to look for and how to record it when doing design research
*Interpret design research
*Better document interaction designs
*Employ interaction design techniques to designing services
*Consider designing for multitasking, adaptation, and hackability
*Prepare for the future of interaction design

Participants will walk away with a firm grasp of the underlying principles of interaction design, and the tools needed to put those into practice.</full-description>
  <id type="integer">38</id>
  <region>CA</region>
  <short-description>Adaptive Path's Dan Saffer will cover approaches to ID: elements, principles, &amp; attributes of good ID; design research techniques; documentation; multitasking, adaptation, hacking, &amp; service design.</short-description>
  <start-on type="date">2006-09-20</start-on>
  <title>Designing for Interaction Workshop</title>
  <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
  <website>http://www.adaptivepath.com/promo/boxes</website>
  <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/38</url>
  <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/38/d4i_deck3.jpg</logo-url>
  <tag-string>id, interaction design, usability, user experience</tag-string>
</event>

