Interactive design is the design of spaces for human communication and reaction. It is the discipline of defining the behaviour of products and systems that a user can interact with. The development of interactive design basically revolves around the complex technology systems including softwares, mobile devices and other electronic devices. Having said that, interactive design is simply not limited to these technologies. It can apply to almost any design that involves and requires user interaction. Interactive design is the outcome of careful planning and the process of formulating the correct behaviour (the 'interaction) of an artifact or system in response to its users.
Certain principles of cognitive psychology (such as problem solving) provide grounding for interactive design. These include mental models (a representation of external reality or how something works in the real world), mapping, interface metaphors and affordances.
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Wikipedia. Online, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interaction_design, 2009, last accessed 15 March 2009.
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