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Interaction design is a design discipline that focuses on creating digital products, systems, and services that are intuitive, user-friendly, and efficient for people to interact with. It entails designing the user interface and user experience of a product or service with the goal of making it easy and enjoyable for users.

Interaction design borrows from a wide range of fields like psychology, human-computer interaction, information architecture, and user research to create designs that are tailored to the needs and preferences of users. This involves understanding the context in which the product will be used, identifying user goals and behaviors, and developing design solutions that are responsive to user needs and expectations.

Design principles
Interaction design goes beyond merely aesthetics and requires consideration of the user base and cognitive principles. This allows designing behavior to be approached systematically and replicated through analysis and synthesis. It's important to note that automating the design of behavior is not possible, just as it's not possible to automate the design of form or content. By approaching the design of behavior systematically, designers can fulfill user goals through well-designed behaviors while still keeping in consideration the rules of form and aesthetics to produce an efficient design for both the user and designer.

Interaction designers must also consider other related design issues and aspects. As the focus of interaction design is on properties that only emerge during actual use and sketches must account for time and dynamics, interaction designers should ask how they address these challenges in practice. Additionally, they should consider how students successfully acquire the necessary skills and competencies to become proficient in the field of interaction design. Corinne Sas has identified numerous challenges in interaction design pedagogy, such as providing student feedback that is sensitive to their work organization, which can often be problematic for supervising teachers. Different formats have been proposed to address such challenges e.g., modifying the format to display design work in progress.

Design process
To begin designing an interaction, it is recommended to first define the relevant user base and understand their needs. It is important to root one's design choices in these individuals' desires and what they bring to the interaction e.g. their own expectations, intellectual capacity, and their software skill level.