ABOUT THIS COURSE

This course focuses on interaction design foundations, history, critique, aesthetics, and contemporary issues. It provides a great intro to new practitioners as well as an in-depth exploration of interaction design for more experienced designers.

Participants will be given the space and guidance to delve into formal and aesthetic aspects of interaction design while getting experience working in a studio environment.

Through a series of lectures, films, history, and studio practice, participants will explore the nature and aesthetics of interaction design in digital and physical space through individual and team work, design synthesis, and more.

This workshop is for anyone who wishes to explore interaction design in both a theoretical and practical way. For those coming from another design discipline, this is a great intro into what makes interaction design unique.

For those without previous design experience, this is a chance to learn the basics of how to work like a designer, as well as the detailed context of interaction design specifically.

Prerequisites

None

How Will You Learn?

A learning-by-doing approach provides hands-on experience with interaction design through small team projects. Through a mix of lectures and studio work, participants will explore the aesthetics, history, and practice of interaction design, presenting their own prototypes by the end of the week.

What will I learn?

Design foundations, theory, history, and practice

How to give and receive critique

How to be creative within constraints and on-demand

Practice working individually and in small teams.