{"id":3990,"date":"2021-10-19T11:25:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T11:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/digital\/?p=3990"},"modified":"2021-10-19T11:25:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T11:25:54","slug":"celebrating-interaction-design-day-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/digital\/2021\/10\/19\/celebrating-interaction-design-day-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Interaction Design Day 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Blog by Scott Langley, Practice Head of\u00a0Interaction Design in the Scottish Government&#8217;s, Digital Directorate.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3961 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/09\/SGWorldInteractionDesignDay-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"World Interaction Design Day logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/09\/SGWorldInteractionDesignDay-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/09\/SGWorldInteractionDesignDay-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/09\/SGWorldInteractionDesignDay-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/09\/SGWorldInteractionDesignDay-640x512.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/09\/SGWorldInteractionDesignDay-525x420.jpg 525w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/240;\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hello I&#8217;m Scott Langley, Practice Head of Interaction Design in the Scottish Government.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>I head up a small team of Interaction designers within the digital directorate and a big part of my role is to help develop Interaction design as a discipline within government, working closely with designers from various directorates and outside agencies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>World\u00a0Interaction Design Day (IxDD) 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We celebrated the IxDD event for the first time this year in the Scottish Government with a 3 day event running from the\u00a028 to 30\u00a0September\u00a02021. The event was online due to the pandemic and free to attend for all Scottish government employees.<\/p>\n<p>The theme for this year&#8217;s event was &#8216;Solidarity and Transformation&#8217;\u00a0as announced by Adobe and the Interaction Design Association.\u00a0Over the 3 days,\u00a0we\u00a0ran 6 sessions.<\/p>\n<p>Our keynote speaker was Luke Jeavons, Head of User Centred Design. Luke gave a fantastic start to the event with his opening talk on\u00a0&#8216;What is Interaction Design and why should we care?&#8217;\u00a0giving a great insight into how and what we do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Interaction Designers think about how words, visuals, as well as aspects such as space and time, all behave together to enable an interaction to feel natural.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Next up was the Social Security Interaction design team who went into detail about their approach to making their service usable and accessible using patterns on the newly devolved benefit payments.<\/p>\n<p>Other topics included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8216;Visualising a future digital planning system built for people&#8217; by Alastair Mitchell<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Designing a payments service for the public sector&#8217; by Ross Woods and<\/li>\n<li>an introduction to\u00a0&#8216;Accessibility&#8217;\u00a0by Mark Palmer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The session I ran with Anusree Raju and Sarah Wright gave an introduction to the Scottish Government&#8217;s Design System.<\/p>\n<p>We\u00a0wanted to give participants who didn&#8217;t know what a design system was, a quick overview about it\u00a0including, why\u00a0we need one and a demonstration on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/designsystem.gov.scot\/\">Scottish Government&#8217;s Design System<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0We then highlighted some of the key components and gave examples of them in action. Finally, we reiterated the point that a design system is never finished and outlined our plans for continuous improvement.<\/p>\n<p>The week was a great success and well attended by participants from a wide variety of directorates. One of the main goal\u00a0of this event\u00a0was to raise awareness of Interaction Design within government and to reach out to areas who need help with design, be it procuring series or spinning up their own design team.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interaction Design meetups<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In addition to the event, we also have a monthly Interaction Design meetup that is an open forum for designers and other user-centred design (UCD) professionals to showcase what they&#8217;ve been working on and to discuss issues they may be facing with their projects and allow the group to share their work that may be on a similar theme.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thank you<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d like to thank all the\u00a0presenters and participants who made this\u00a0event\u00a0such a great\u00a0success.<\/p>\n<p>Please feel free to contact <a href=\"mailto:interactiondesign@gov.scot\">interactiondesign@gov.scot<\/a> if you would like to find out more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blog by Scott Langley, Practice Head of\u00a0Interaction Design in the Scottish Government&#8217;s, Digital Directorate. 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