Interaction Design

Hi! Welcome to our resource list for Interaction Design (IxD/UX) at Emily Carr. For each category, we’ve picked a couple of key resources you can start with, as well as further reading and links to lots more. A quick note on our field: you will see the terms “Interaction Design” “IxD” “User Experience Design” and “UX” used pretty interchangeably in some of these resources. A good way to remember the difference is that the overall umbrella term in most university programs is “Interaction Design” and UX is a subset referring to design research. In most professional certificate programs and workplace usage, “User Experience Design” is the umbrella term. 

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Visual definition of interaction design by Bill Verplank. (2 mins. 50 sec.)

Venn Diagram by Saffer, 2008