[IxDA Discuss] Interaction design is design of time

[Leisa Reichelt]

> Is it the design of time or the design of attention? ... There are certainly occasions where
>focusing attention on appropriate information will increase the time,
e.g. in a medical
> record where you want the doctor to actually look at someone's information rather than
> flowing past it.

yes, I agree with this, Todd.

in some cases, your objective will be to get the user from point A to
point B as quickly as possible, with the least number of errors. This
is particularly true for  transactional style interfaces.

In other interfaces, though, the goal may be to hold the users
attention for an extended period of time.

So, I guess, time *is* a factor in interface design, but that
shouldn't be simplified to mean that *speed* is always the goal.

And I'm not sure I agree that interface design is *primarily*
concerned with design of time...

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Leisa Reichelt
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