Throughout this chapter, we started to get our hands into some skills and activities that an HCI designer can use to start designing software development. The skills and tools used by most HCI designers and are why HCI skills are such a vibrant and sought-after talent. The role of this chapter was to allow you to get some practice with them, and hopefully they will stick with you long after you have completed this book.
Because the skills and activities of an HCI designer are so vast, this chapter covered the potential roles that designers with HCI skills can occupy. The reality is that software is a team endeavor, and we covered why the HCI design process is related to interaction, and frontend and backend responsibilities that utilize an agile development ethos and cycles to create software solutions. Throughout this chapter, many challenges were thrown at you and hopefully, they got you to start practicing the HCI way with prototyping first and validating your ideas with users...