Interaction Design is the art of effectively creating delightful and compelling experiences between people and the products and services that they use. New modes of interactions have already reinvented age-old practices, such as socializing, storytelling and wayfinding. Using a cultural approach, we conduct a series of explorations and analyses together to develop sensitivity to factors of enrichment and annoyance in computational procedures and taxonomies. We examine the principles of abstraction, metaphor, affordances, navigation, collocation, and usability in good interaction design through hands-on UX (user experience) techniques, such as the customer user journey, service blueprint, flow chart, sketching, and value proposition. We evaluate and propose redesigns for common software and apps to better address issues of motivation, ability, and triggers. Ideally we build a framework that enables us to understand, design and play with our relationships to technology. For your final project, you will create an interaction design prototype for a new service or activity, evaluate and transform an existing design, or research a new design practice.