What makes the article interesting for designers is that as we think more about game-like aspects to the interfaces we develop, understanding how to motivate and encourage interaction is important. Applications, websites, devices cannot always provide a quantifiable sense of achievement. So, how can qualitative incentives help?

A product is actually a service. Although the designer, manufacturer, distributer, and seller may think it is a product, to the buyer, it offers a valuable service.

If only a small bit of the typical time, money, and resources used to make and market a product or service were put towards design research—observing, talking to, and maybe even making artifacts with customers and users—the products and services we use would be greatly improved. Dan Saffer explains.

I diagrammi sono uno strumento essenziale per comunicare l'Information Architecture e l'Interaction Design (progettazione dell'interazione) nei team di sviluppo di progetti web.

Questo documento presenta i risultati dello sviluppo di questi diagrammi, delinea una simbologia base per rappresentare i concetti dell'architettura delle informazioni e dell'interaction design, e fornisce le linee guida per l'utilizzo di questi elementi.

Interessante video sui Carousels.

Forms make or break the most crucial online interactions: checkout (commerce), registration (community), data input (participation and sharing), and any task requiring information entry. In Web Form Design, Luke Wroblewski draws on original research, his considerable experience at Yahoo! and eBay, and the perspectives of many of the field's leading designers to show you everything you need to know about designing effective and engaging Web forms.

In contemporanea con l'uscita del libro (che avverra' a breve), e' gia' on line il sito che promette molto bene. Questo articolo elenca una serie di ottimi esempi di design di interfacce tratti dal libro.

Raccolta di esempi di interaction design.

Raccolta di pattern in interaction design.