Interactivity

The first rule of online success is it’s never about you. Brilliant as you and your business are, focus on the visitor. Let them know you understand what matters to them. Put them center stage.

—Bryan & Jeff Eisenberg, Call To Action, Pg 245

• Flash intros and why to (generally) avoid them
• Forms, contacts, subscriptions, newsletters
• Web 2.0: RSS feeds, blogrolls
• Javascript
• Flash
• Designing for user content-driven sites
• Search engine optimization and traffic analysis

Interactivity

First Principles of Interaction Design by Bruce Tognazzini

We'll use this classic writing as the basis for an exploration of:

• Anticipation
• Autonomy
• Color blindness
• Consistency
• Defaults
• Efficiency of the user
• Explorable interfaces
• Fitts' Law
• Human interface objects
• Latency reduction
• Learnability
• Metaphors
• Protect users' work
• Readability
• Track state
• Visible navigation

We'll extend our discussion to include location-based interactivity and deviced-based sensors.