Lets define Interactive Design...
Interactive design is the practice of designing interactive applications, applications that cause users to react and to feel apart of the product, making the decisions of path. It allows a two-way transfer of information among a computer and its user.
Interactive design relates to the behavior of products, the way the product works. The aim of interactive design is to aid interactions between humans, making connections between people.
In conclusion it is clear that Interactive Design softwares do not have a passive and inactive purpose, in fact they aid users to take control, and hence aiming at adjusting to the needs of each individual user.
Examples:
Children Websites- they provide the user with an educational and entertaining interactive interface.
Take for example this website below, http://pbskids.org/
It allows the user to direct its own path and make its own
decisions on what they want to
get out of this site.
It allows the user to direct its own path and make its own
decisions on what they want to
get out of this site.
This example is a perfect example of interactive design at its best,
i advise you to look at it.(http://ff0000.com/) It is a website about
a Interactive company; Red interactive Agency.
In this site you can research
into what the company does, and jobs offering,
and examples of their work. It also has interactive
components where you can have a live chat with other people who
are on the site. It is a more interactive way to chat. Your this character
that you create and walk around the site to other rooms and speak
to people in those rooms.
This website, Conrad Smash Fiesta (http://smashfiesta.crugroup.com.au/)
is another great example of a well designed
interactive website. This website contains a game, games
involve the users, which hence makes this site a
good example of a interactive website.
