Hoahoa ā-PāhekohekoInteraction Design

To me interaction design is all about the communication between objects and people. So with every design concept you have you can have objects talking to objects, people to objects, or people to people.
Whether it's like products or websites or services interaction design is ultimately helping people so that those experiences are the best that they possibly can be.

Interaction design kind of channels human psychology towards design issues it's really just real-life problems and ways of solving them with either tangible products or intangible services.

I define interaction design as kind of sitting in between industrial and media design it draws on kind of all aspects of those papers. At the base of all our designs, we find a pain point and then we target that. We're not just designing a bit of furniture that you're going to sit on we might design a bit of furniture for someone that has trouble getting up and down off their seat because they've got arthritis in their hips or something like that. So we're looking at someone's personal problem or a large group of people's problems and designing to fix that.

My favourite part about studying interaction design at Vic is probably being able to work with a group of people who are super like-minded and all kind of want what is best for the people that we're designing for.

My favourite part of studying interaction design at Vic has to be just the city, the city itself I love Wellington so much. I live two minutes from campus it's a two-minute walk to get sushi on the break you know it's all really close. I knew I wanted to study interaction design because it was looking at a whole process it's not looking at you know a typical one point of like I'm gonna design a couch or I'm gonna design a lamp. We're looking at the start and the end. We're looking at how's that couch the experience of buying that couch and then when you buy the couch and then that experience of getting that couch home and you're looking at the whole holistic approach of it. It's not just a single point and it draws on all different aspects of design and I don't like to kind of keep myself to one point I like to do video, I like to do photography, I like to design physical objects, I like to do a little bit of website design and aesthetic design. So it kind of just means I can kind of do everything I want.

As much as I'm not really like a coder or a developer I don't really love the digital side of things all the time, I think I like to step away from that when I can. But with interaction it means that I can design products, I can design services, I can design apps, and they are all kind of working towards the same common goal of just solving a problem. And that's really gratifying to be able to do for someone

It's really undervalued especially with the fact that interaction design in the workplace now is forming a part of almost every major service business.

There's so many possible things that you could do with interaction design whether it be being an in-house designer and helping companies with certain aspects of user experience or web design and things like that.

My minor is in marketing and I've found that there's actually a lot of parallels with social marketing and UX design, interaction design, and video so I love video as well so all those three things combined. Social marketing is essentially marketing for greater social goods so it would be kind of an agency like Clemenger BBDO, for example, they do stuff with drunk driving campaigns and all that sort of stuff for government agencies and that would be kind of like designing the problem, the strategy, the implementation, like video and all that.

I really want to go out and try a few companies, a few small companies, that are related to design and really see what the whole process is like from the start to the end. You know what's it like running a company? I've always been interested in having my own company in the future.

Just using my skills that I've got from interaction to actually solve a problem and just make a change in someone's life or a big group of people's lives and just design to make things better. And not design for the sake of just making more crap if you don't mind me saying. And in the end that just ends up getting thrown into the dump or it ends up getting thrown out and you just keep adding to this consumerist society that we have. And we need to be designing to get out of that so we have a better future

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