What did 2011 teach us about interaction design? Obviously not that year end lists are now passé.

Title: 5 Lessons From The Best Interaction Designs Of 2011
Context: What did we learn about interaction design trends in 2011? Read on to find out.
Synopsis: Ah, the end of year list. What a great user experience. Reducing the complexity of 365 days of chaos into 1 simple, manageable, easily digestible, compact, ordered synopsis. In this case here’s what we learned about interaction design in 2011:… Ha! Did you think that I would ruin the surprise for you!?!? I mean a summarization of an itemized, year end list? How meta would that be? It would probably rip a hole in the universe. No, you will have to click through and read on yourself. Although I will say that one of the lessons in question is to not “buy into the hype”. So maybe you shouldn’t read it after all?
Best Bit: “…interaction design continues to gain prominence as the discipline with the greatest potential to maintain our sanity in this brave new world of distraction.”

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