Product Design's Ability: Interaction Design

“Interaction Design is the creation of a dialogue between a person and a product, system, or service. This dialogue is both physical and emotional in nature and is manifested in the interplay between form, function, and technology as experienced over time.”

-- John Kolko, Author of Thoughts on Interaction Design (2011)

I have observed this person showing a consistent, comfortable, continuous, and clear positive impact to a squad when wielding this ability, and therefore I would put them in situations where they can employ this ability with only a small amount of guidance

• Your designs cover the happy path, but may not anticipate edge cases or other parts of the app that may be affected.
• Your designs continously cover 1 of the 5 Interaction Design dimensions: words (1D), visual representations (2D), physical objects/space (3D), time (4D), and behavior (5D).

I have observed this person showing a consistent, comfortable, continuous, and clear positive impact to a squad when wielding this ability, and therefore I would put them in situations where they can employ this ability, with no assistance as well as being a trusted active or passive mentor to others

• Your designs cover the happy path and anticipate edge cases or other parts of the app that may be affected.
• Your designs continuously cover 3 of the 5 Interaction Design dimensions: words (1D), visual representations (2D), physical objects/space (3D), time (4D), and behavior (5D).
• The product language used in your designs is consistent with the current application

I have observed this person showing a consistent, comfortable, continuous, and clear positive impact to multiple squads when wielding this ability, and therefore I would put them in situations where they can employ this ability as well as being considered an expert within this discipline

• Your designs continuously cover 5 of the 5 Interaction Design dimensions: words (1D), visual representations (2D), physical objects/space (3D), time (4D), and behavior (5D).
• Your designs match the user's mental model of the system, delivering excellent visual representation and behavior
• You are proactive in improving language within the product, either to systemically improve or to make more consistent.

I have observed this person showing a consistent, comfortable, continuous, and clear positive impact to a squad when wielding this ability, and therefore I would put them in situations where they can not only employ this ability but where they set the tone for this at the company level

• You proactively improve systemic behaviors in the application to better match user's mental models.
• You level up the quality and polish of interactions throughout the application.
• You create standards for the design organization around functional language within the product

I have observed this person showing a consistent, comfortable, continuous, and clear positive impact to not just internal teams but the community/industry in general when wielding this ability, and they are recognized by the community/industry as an expert

• You are a community/industry leader in interaction design standards and techniques.
• You create new paradigms of mobile and desktop interaction such that the app experience becomes even more intuitive.