Interactive Design

Interactive Design is the interaction of design activities that industrial designers brought up to people's everyday life. It aims to shape people's everyday life, through the use of various design products. Today lots of artifacts we see in our life, are not just designed for the use of it, or for it's functionality purpose. Those artifacts are designed more in the way to be influential in people's everyday. And this is where the interaction happens, the interactive design exists.

Look back the early invention of World Wide Web, it was invented for people to retrieve information from, there was not much interaction for users to play around with. People search the internet, read information on the webpage, learn tips from the information, and that's the end. This is certainly not what people always expect to do in their life, people always feel like being involved in everyday life activities, they don't want just read things already published on the internet, but more than that, people want to create their own sites, or give their opinions about what certain person said about things, and most likely they want to play around with the stuff they see on the internet.

So, this is where Web 2.0 comes in, Web 2.0 was created from the concept of interactive design, as I mentioned on my 1st post, Web 2.0 is "the understanding of the network is the platform." What's is platform? Platform is the where people interact with each other, where the interaction takes place. So basically, Web 2.0 was created for people to have more interaction on the internet. Today we can post our own video on the internet, publish our own opinions about certain things, we can even create our own websites. These interactions are brought to our life, through interactive design. Interactive Design shapes our everyday life, most likely interactive design enriches people's everyday life.