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A 77-second explainer of The 5 dimensions of interaction design, narrated over the same demo you can try yourself.
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What this video covers
The five dimensions of interaction design are a model - words, visual representations, physical objects or space, time, and behaviour - for thinking about all the ingredients of an interaction. Together they describe everything a designer shapes when crafting how a person and a product communicate, from the labels they read to the way the product responds over time.
Walk one ordinary interaction through the five dimensions and you see how much is really going on: the words you read, the icons you recognise, the device in your hand, the timing of the response, and the behaviour that reacts to you. Most people only think about the visuals - but an interaction is built from all five, and a weak link in any one (clumsy words, bad timing, an unreachable control) undermines the whole.
