7 Designing for interactivity

 

This chapter covers

  • The basics of designing for interaction
  • Using interactivity to enable exploration in a viz
  • Designing for some unfamiliar modes of interaction
  • Applying WCAG to interactivity

7.1 Basics of interaction design

7.1.1 Give clues about how and where to interact

7.1.2 Use familiar interaction patterns

7.1.3 Give feedback after an interaction

7.1.4 Anticipate errors

7.1.5 Make it beautiful

7.1.6 Bonus tip: Give users an out

7.2 Enabling exploration using interaction

7.2.1 The Visual Information-Seeking Mantra

7.2.2 More ways to enable exploration

7.2.3 Balancing when to require interaction

7.3 Interactions on different devices

7.3.1 A tiny intro to HTML

7.3.2 Mobile devices

7.3.3 Desktop

7.3.4 Screen readers

7.4 WCAG and interactivity

Summary