Interaction Design
Not offered in 2011.
Interaction design started (and develops lively) as an ‘inter-discipline’ between human-computer interaction and industrial, communication and service design. In the past decade it shifted its focus from primarily hard- and software related design to analysis and design for and of human interaction.
Interaction Design is designing the media layers of contemporary human communication. These media layers can be software-based, and today they often are. But this isn’t a must. Examples for Interaction Design are websites, the interfaces of cell phones and other devices and video games. But also a cup of coffee, a party with friends or a gig at a club can and should be considered Interaction Design.
A brief and helpful discussion of the profession ‘Interaction Designer’ can be found at the design company Cooper: So You Want To Be An Interaction Designer.
