Interactivity

In term of design and visual communications, interactivity simply refers to the interaction between user and the design works. The interactions may involve a wide variety of things such as; relating to the user’s own past experiences or current perspectives, or it may involve some kinds of physical movements.


 * Interactivity = the interaction between user and design/interface.**

Interactive design allows for the users interactive behaviours as the primary objective (legibility of the text, image resolution, the composition, overall visual appearance, etc). **Interactivity gives feedback to the user and allows them to perform many functions.** Interactivity on the net can be seen with browsers and hyperlinks, which give some feedback either an underline or be in blue text which informs the user that it is click-able. Interactivity is a part of GUI’s. Flash websites tend to be a great example of interactivity. Jeffery Veen suggests that [|flickr.com] is a great example of interactivity in design.

A prime example to grasp the concept of interactivity is video games. Currently video games are becoming more interactive, examples such as [|The Nintendo Wii] or [|Guitar Hero]. A game is a computer program which the user hits certain buttons to perform a function.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/variable1979/1586269600/

http://www.nintendo.com/wii/ [| www.flickr.com] [| www.guitarhero.com] http://www.buckproductions.com/level0.htm http://www.compass360.com/coldmountain/introduction.htm http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/
 * Related Links:**

"Interactivity." __Dictionary.Com__. 21 Jan. 2008 <[|http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/interactivity>.] "Interactivity." __Wikipedia__. 24 Oct. 2007. 21 Jan. 2008 
 * Sources**

Veen, Jeffery. "State-of-the-Art Interactivity?" __Veen.Com__. 2005. 6 Feb. 2008 <[|http://www.veen.com/jeff/archives/000705.html>.]

"What is Interactivity?" __SearchSOA.Com__. 2008. 6 Feb. 2008 <[|http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid26_gci212361,00.html>.]