MA in Interaction Design

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Facts & Figures

17 nationalities
The IxD programme currently has students representing Australia, Austria, Belarus, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, India, Iran, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, and USA

IxD internships 2010-2011
ART+COM, Germany
Atlas Copco, Sweden
DesignIt, Denmark
Design-People, Denmark
ErgonomiDesign, Sweden
Harman, China
IDEO, Germany & US
Nokia, Finland

Recent awards
Jordi Parra's thesis project Spotify Box has been shortlisted for the 2012 IXDA Interaction Award.

Siri Johansson is one of four winners of the IxD12 Student Design Challenge.

Current activities
IxD1s are finalizing their first major project in collaboration project with the local Police authority developing efficient interface concepts for County Command and Communication Centers.
IxD2s are developing engaging and tangible concepts for children regarding saving money in a digital world, in collaboration with Swedbank.

 

Niklas Andersson

Niklas Andersson

Programme Director
Interaction Design
Tel +46 90 786 70 34

Linda Bogren

Linda Bogren

Ass. Prog. Director
Interaction Design
Tel. +46 90 786 68 79

 

Matt Cottam

Adjunct Professor
Interaction Design

Mike Stott

Professor Emeritus and Senior Advisor
Interaction Design

 

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Developments in Information Technology have challenged industrial design tradition by demanding a shift of emphasis from the idea of "product-as-object" towards the notion of "product-as-event" where the dynamic and interactive qualities of products and services need to be better understood in the context of human behaviour. This shift of focus has inspired us to develop our Interaction Design Programme and to initiate new areas of research in the design field.

It has become a major challenge for industrial designers to design useful and easily comprehensible products and therefore this has become an increasingly important part of industrial design education. The convergence of computing, communications and media has given rise to products and services ranging from mobile telephones to social media environments where functional and technological complexity have often resulted in confusion and frustration for users.

Our interaction design education offers exciting opportunities for designers to extend their existing skills into new territory where the focus is on people's needs rather than technological capability. Our vision for interaction design is not only about the design of the object but also about the object of design.

 

The students of the programme are running and updating the InteractionDesign.se blog with various interaction design news and information.