I wanted to let you all know that this coming fall (just 2 short weeks away) 2 of the IACT classes will be project classes centered around designing iPhone applications & games for 2 upcoming conferences.
IACT 317 (Interactive Product Design) will be designing an iPhone application which will be at the crux of the mobile experience for attendees of the Interaction 10 | Savannah conference. The international Interaction Design conference organized by the Interaction Design Association (IxDA). Besides the content of the class, you will be working with a couple of superstars of the user experience and interaction design communities, Will Evans (@semanticwill) and Todd Zaki Warfel (@zakiwarfel).
IACT 375 (Cognition & Perception Human Factors) will be designing an iPhone game for both the Interaction 10 conference and the CSCW ’10 conference (which is happening the same weekend as @ixd10. Because of the nature of the project, we will be spinning this class towards game design theory more than the more traditional interaction design side the course usually takes.
Both classes have lots of space, so if you want an elective or you want to maybe switch around the order you take your IACT classes (pre-reqs still matter), then please feel free to come on in!
I’m eager to find non-ID students to join either of these classes, so if you have friends in either graphic design or interactive/game design who are seniors who have some experience designing for human beings, let them know I’d give them pre-req waivers. (I do realize it is late, but ya never know!)
Have fun all!
– dave
ps. These courses are going to be INTENSE! so be ready to work hard. Get a leg up by looking at my delicious bookmarks for your classes: IACT 375 | IACT 317
This quarter I had the honor of working on a project sponsored by chip manufacturer Freescale. Two classes worked together on this project. My class was a group of 6 motivated, creative and energized graduate students.
I am so excited about this work and so hungry to get feedback that I really want to get this material out there as soon as I can. So here goes:
Process Book
Inside the below embedded process book are the details of both the interaction design and the industrial design sides of the project.
The folks at Mozilla Labs, The Interaction Design Association (IxDA) and JohnnyHolland.org have put together a design challenge for practitioners and students.
In short the challenge is about redesigning how we manage multiple instances of a web browser. But the big story is the opportunity to even break out of such paradigms and answer bigger questions.
This was posted on the ITGM blog. It seems “controlled” by the ITGM Chair. But I don’t see any reason why this position shouldn’t be something any of ID-IACT folks should not be interested in or capable of doing.
The Umeå Institute of Design is pretty darn far north in Sweden and makes Savannah seem like a hot bed of activity (can’t wait to visit there some time!). I found the Interaction Design student Blog and thought out of all the IxD programs out there it would be a nice one for us to keep an eye on.
This is from their about page.
This is the digital home of the students of the Interaction Design MA programme at the Umeå Institute of Design, 63.45°N, 20.20°E, in Sweden.
Started in 2006, this blog will be a timeline of students’ work, processes, experiments, ideas, thoughts, links, books and resources.
