Dave Malouf: Interaction Design as the Language of Story

We hosted Dave Malouf at Mesh for the talk "Interaction Design as the Language of Story".

Malouf, an interaction designer with nearly 20 years of experience, was a founder and the first Vice President of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA). He had been Professor of Interaction Design in the Industrial Design Department at the Savannah College of Art & Design and, before that, Senior Interaction Designer at Motorola Enterprise Mobility.

The talk presented storytelling as a practical toolkit for interaction design, summed up as "Contexts + Characters + Plots = Design". Just as stories place characters in bounded contexts and lead them through actions towards a climax, interaction design can be seen as a sequence of moments and actions, bound by context, that guide people towards a goal. Malouf showed how the language of story can help designers shape the systems that connect interfaces and communicate the principles behind them.

Speakers

• Dave Malouf, Interaction designer; co-founder and first Vice President of IxDA; former Professor of Interaction Design, SCAD — Interaction Design as the Language of Story

The original event page is on meetup.com.