Re: [IxDA Discuss] Valuable courses for interaction Designers

2008-03-25 Thread Victor Lombardi
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:06:06, Dave Jasper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the great information above. I live in NYC and I am > interested in interaction design fyi, Smart Experience in New York City will again host Dave Malouf's 6-week 'Interaction Design for Web Applications' course

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Valuable courses for interaction Designers

2008-03-25 Thread dave malouf
I would just add that it is the Interactive Design and Game Design program that does the online courses right now. the Interaction design program at SCAD is a minor for a bachelor's degree in industrial design. Interactive != Interaction ... The former is a craft program about learning tools for t

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Valuable courses for interaction Designers

2008-03-25 Thread Chris Bernard
t: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Valuable courses for interaction Designers Thanks for the great information above. I live in NYC and I am interested in interaction design. I know there are some great full time programs here (NYU, Parsons) but I cannot commit to full-time studies. I was thinking of the onlin

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Valuable courses for interaction Designers

2008-03-25 Thread Dave Jasper
Thanks for the great information above. I live in NYC and I am interested in interaction design. I know there are some great full time programs here (NYU, Parsons) but I cannot commit to full-time studies. I was thinking of the online interaction design program at SCAD. Does anyone have an opinion

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Valuable courses for interaction Designers

2008-03-25 Thread W Evans
List member Jon Kolko was a professor there and probably has some good insight. On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:29:27, Dave Jasper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have an opinion about SCAD and/or the online interactive > design MA there? > > Thanks, > Dave > > >

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Valuable courses for interaction Designers

2008-03-25 Thread Dave Jasper
Does anyone have an opinion about SCAD and/or the online interactive design MA there? Thanks, Dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=27429 ___

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Valuable courses for interaction Designers

2008-03-24 Thread Adrian Chong
Narrative and New Media # Analyze traditional linear narrative multi-media construction (primarily film and animation) # Analyze multi-linear multi-media narrative aesthetics and construction (graphic novels, comic strip, video-game, hypertext, website, interactive video, interactive installation)

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Valuable courses for interaction Designers

2008-03-22 Thread Jim Leftwich
This .pdf of a paper: Lessons from Bauhaus, Ulm and NID: Role of Basic Design in PG Education M P Ranjan Faculty of Design National Institute of Design Paper submitted for the DETM Conference at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad in March 2005. http://homepage.mac.com/ranjanmp/.Public/Ba

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Valuable courses for interaction Designers

2008-03-22 Thread Jeremy Yuille
> what academic courses have proven to be the most valuable in providing you > with the conceptual and practical skills to succeed at your profession?? courses I sat architectural design studio - particularly the 2nd year project: design a house for gaston bachelard - intro'd me to phenomenology

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Valuable courses for interaction Designers

2008-03-22 Thread Uday Gajendar
> what academic courses have proven to be the most valuable in > providing you with the conceptual and practical skills to succeed at > your profession?? What helped me so far: Graduate design seminar: theory/philosophy/strategy of design thinking Integrated Product Development (IPD): design

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Valuable courses for interaction Designers

2008-03-21 Thread dave malouf
Maybe it is just that titles aren't saying it and it is in the coursework, but I haven't seen any studio classes. My two were Drawing/Sketching for Product Design Studio & Product Design Studio. Studio courses in general to me are key to ANY design education just not IxD. They are the cornerstone

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Valuable courses for interaction Designers

2008-03-21 Thread Dan Saffer
Typography Sketching and Modeling Design Theory Mapping and Diagramming Conceptual Modeling Design Research These are the ones I find myself referring to/thinking about/putting into practice repeatedly. Dan Welcome to the Intera

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Valuable courses for interaction Designers

2008-03-21 Thread mark schraad
In order if importance: 1 A cog psych course - sensation, perception cognition - leave the eye tracking machine alone 2 A behavioral psych course 3 A basic Anthropology/ethnographic course Note the emphasis on people, not technology. Of course if your undergrad is in any one of these feels you sh

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Valuable courses for interaction Designers

2008-03-21 Thread Celeste 'seele' Paul
On Thursday 20 March 2008 15:47:12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A question for experienced Interaction Designers: A forewarning, I think I'm more academic than professional and I had a few years experience before going through my program, so not everyone in my program would have the same opinion a

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Valuable courses for interaction Designers

2008-03-20 Thread karine Drumond
In Brazil we have just one Interaction Design course (Belo Horizonte - Brazil) . It`s the first post graduation course here. And I have just concluded it. :-) The program included: Interaction Design fundamentals Human factors Interaction Styles User Centered Design Prototyping Usability methods E