Catalog
Interaction Design (MP403)
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| Day(s): | 10 Wed, Jan 6-Mar 10, 2010 | status: | Open | |||
| Time: | 6-9pm | Register Online | ||||
| Instructor: |
Dwayne King Eric Hillerns |
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| Location: | Broadway 225 Lab, PSU | |||||
| Fee: | $825.00 noncredit, includes materials and $35 lab fee 3 credits optional for addl $165 |
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This course covers basic concepts and issues pertaining to the design of interfaces for digital products, applicable to a range of contexts: web, mobile, desktop, and beyond. The ultimate objective in the design of a product is to fulfill the goals and expectations of users. The seamless integration of its physical and virtual properties is one step towards achieving this objective. Being a studio course, interface design topics will be taught via hands-on individual and group projects interspersed with case studies and core principles relevant to that stage in the semester or project. Active student participation is required to reap the benefits of the course, and to enable the course to be a success. A basic assumption is that you are curious or fascinated by the interfaces that populate our daily lives, and wish to learn more about how they are made, how to improve them, and how they can better impact one’s quality of life. In particular, this course should be of interest to ID students as products take on increasingly digital qualities, including embedded screens, touch-based interactions, and so forth.
Note: This class is not a tool workshop (i.e., Photoshop, Flash, or Dreamweaver) although such tools may be used for completing assignments as needed. Nor is this a class for “making a website”. Instead this class leverages industry expertise and core principles to help illuminate, clarify, and educate about the problems inherent to interaction design.
Requirements:
It is assumed that you are familiar with Web Design process and techniques, as these will be referred to on a regular basis. It is up to you to seek help from the instructors or other classmates if this is not the case. It is also assumed that you have basic knowledge of the following:
Some drawing/image editing software (Photoshop, or Illustrator, or Fireworks, etc.)
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Some presentation software (PowerPoint, or Keynote, etc.).
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Pen and paper to draw boxes and sketches.
If you know how to make interactive mockups in HTML, great! But that is not a requirement.
If you know how to make Flash demos, awesome! But that is not a requirement.
No programming or scripting knowledge is needed.
