Emerging technologies are changing the way users experience digital solutions. Applications are more dynamic than ever before, and with the rise of mobile computing, are appearing in more contexts than ever before.
Increasingly, it is the behavior of those applications—the way they respond to users and to their context—that determines users’ satisfaction and success.

Interaction Design is an emerging design practice that deals with the behavior of systems. Interaction Design can be used to approach problems at the smallest level of detail within a digital application, at the level of the application itself, and even beyond--it can be used to design systems that include applications, services, and environments into seamless whole experiences.

Designers working in Interaction Design often disagree about the precise definition of the term. This talk will explore some of the definitions, illustrating them with a range of examples from the smallest scale digital interactions to an application-level thinking to systems-level examples. The talk will also explore practical techniques and approaches that designers can use immediately in their day-to-day practice to take advantage of the latest Interaction Design thinking. Finally, because we will be exploring a new way to think about design problems, the talk will arm designers with new, powerful way to approach innovation.