Pre-conference workshop

IxDA presents Designing RIAs: A workshop on IxD theory and practice

23/03/2007 (Friday). Half day (am)

This year the IxD Symposium by IxDA is taking a different tact in helping people learn and engage in dialog and practice about Interaction Design (IxD). This year, we are going to take a practical approach to our coursework by offering a workshop on Interaction Design of Rich Internet Applications.

David Malouf of Motorola (VP of IxDA) will teach core principles of interaction design practice by working with participants through theory and exercises related to the designing Rich Internet Applications (RIAs).

The workshop will

The beginning part of the workshop will focus on defining what is an RIA why RIAs are useful, based on core design concepts.
The next section will explore the concept of interaction design patterns. The patterns will be used to illustrate eight key design principles that are important when designing rich interactions on the web. While many of the examples focus on web sites and web applications, the principles are applicable across the whole of the application space.
The 2nd half of the workshop will shift to focus on the design process: sketching, framework and language development and prototyping. There are many challenges in communicating designs as the level of interactivity increases. This portion of the workshop will survey various techniques for documenting and communicating rich web design.
Then we bring it all together for a hands-on collaborative design workshop where participants will design an application and learn from each other and the presenters about process and solutions that use richness appropriately.

Core concepts of IxD that are explored in this workshop include:

Design Patterns & Design Principles
Design Processes
- Sketching
- Creating design languages
Context-based design

Anyone interested in learning and discussing IxD or RIAs would gain value from attending this pre-conference workshop: Designers, IAs, IxDs, Managers, etc.