Tuesday, July 1st, 2008, 1315 days ago

UI & Interaction

My point is that UI do not mean interaction design, definitely.
Due to the definition of UI in WIKI, it is explained as User interface, right, interface for using.
So, how about the INTERACTION, the same as UI? Not at all.
In my private opinion, the INTERACTION is the progress which happens between the user and the object including people or machine, most times computer.

According to the definition, INTERACTION is much more expandable and border than UI. As result, while doing UI design, it is necessary to take how to improve interaction level into consideration, or the design is just nothing but graphic only. I was asked several times to tell the differences from UI and INTERACTION, at that time i always explained the graphic design and UI design was even not the same thing, on the aspect of interaction definition.

That is my standpoint, UI is just one part of interaction design which contains the whole progress of people to communicate with environment. Do remember, while picking UI out of INTERACTION, it is still a part of INTERACTION.