Interactive Media Design (IMD) provides students with an expansive understanding of the processes and methods involved in conceiving, creating, and evaluating technology-mediated experiences. IMD students create media products ranging from video and immersive artworks to web-based and platform-specific apps while working in collaboration with their peers. With its interdisciplinary approach to interaction design and emphasis on studio practice, IMD enables students to develop creative solutions to complex problems. The two-year curriculum, grounded in an intensive cohort-based learning environment, blends academic theory, human-centered design, artistic technique, process management approaches, and methods for gathering and analyzing critical metrics.
Interactive Media Design (IMD) provides students with an expansive understanding of the processes and methods involved in conceiving, creating, and evaluating technology-mediated experiences. IMD students create media products ranging from video and immersive artworks to web-based and platform-specific apps while working in collaboration with their peers. With its interdisciplinary approach to interaction design and emphasis on studio practice, IMD enables students to develop creative solutions to complex problems. The two-year curriculum, grounded in an intensive cohort‐based learning environment, blends academic theory, human-centered design, artistic technique, process management approaches, and methods for gathering and analyzing critical metrics.
Minimum one course from each of the areas below with a minimum grade of 2.0.(20 credits)
Upon completion of the IMD degree students will be able to:
• Understand and engage critically with theories and concepts related to analysis, design, development, and implementation of interactive media experiences and their social context.
• Use an interdisciplinary approach in the design and development of interactive media that applies methodologies and best practices from a variety of design approaches, including engineering, user-centered, inclusive, community-based, and universal.
• Collaborate effectively, creatively, productively, and ethically using team and communication skills imbued with respect and empathy.
• Create interactive media experiences that engage unequal relations of power, knowledge, and difference by learning from communities with multiple intersecting identities.
• Utilize a variety of technologies and tools to explore, develop, and deliver interactive experiences on commonly used platforms and infrastructure as well as on novel and experimental interfaces and systems.
• Write and communicate clearly at all stages of project research, design, and implementation.