Interactive Design - Examples

There are many great examples for interactive design. Since interactive design can be incorporated objects, programs or systems, you will discover that interactive design is something which you encounter everyday. Some examples include:

Mobile Phones - such as an iPhone
iPhones require its users to interact with the device through the 'multi-touch' feature. To make a call its users need to touch the screen to enter the number they want to call. Moreover there are games such as 'Tap Tap Revenge' which require its user to listen to the music and tap the screen with the beat.

Another example would be mp3/movie players such as iPods
iPods are great examples of interactive design. The users can choose whatever songs/movies they want to be played at any time. The buttons also allows them to navigate easily through the files in the device.

Laptop devices also demonstrate the concept of interactive design.
From the keyboard to the screen, users can see and view programs/websites/softwares on the screen and respond or react using the keyboard or the trackpad/mouse. Hence, laptops demonstrate the basic concept of interactive design; user-interaction (observe/watch and respond/react).

Similarly, ATM machines also demonstrate an interactive design where options and questions are presented on screen and users are required to press the appropriate buttons to make a transaction.

Other examples of interactive design can be seen through social networking sites such as:
- Facebook
- Myspace