ITP Research
“…people, projects, ideas and applications all dedicated to exploring and expanding the ability of real people to use media to connect to one another and influence the world around them.”
[IxDA Discuss] Junior Designers
Members of the Interaction Design Association mailing list weigh in on how junior designers should pick the right place to get a job. (Don’t step into a situation where you have to be an IxD evangelist, right out of school.)
[IxDA Discuss] MS, MFA, or Mdes?
Thread on IxDA.org mailing list. People weigh in with their thoughts on the different degree types offered by interaction design programs currently.
2004 Salary Survey for User Experience Design and Usability Professionals
A look at the influence of location, education, primary duties (interaction design vs user experience design/management vs interface design etc) and years experience on salary.
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Spring 2006 ITP Master Course Listing
Good overview of things happening at ITP. Short descriptions accompany each course listed.
OK/Cancel - Getting a User Experience Job
The market’s good now. How will it be in 3 years?
Visual Interface Design (Spring 2005)
Syllabus of CMU class taught by Dan Saffer. Course reading and project assignments. Good fodder for self study.
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Dan Saffer’s old blog entries from his time in the M.Des. program at CMU.
Carnegie Mellon’s Interaction Design program.
“Too Many Grads or Too Few Competencies? The Design School Dilemma”
AIGA article on the possible (or not?) glut of graphic designers graduating from design schools. Specifically addressing graphic design, but a good thing to keep in mind regardless.
Rhode Island School of Design - Digital Media program
Requires 4 years of prev. digital media study. Too bad, as the course list looks really interesting. Rapid prototyping, “experimenting with optics” (projectors), tangible and wearable computing etc.
George Legrady [Interactive | Algorithmic] Visualization Research Lab
The Visualization Lab provides the focus for the research and practice components. Projects integrate interactive art installation, collaborative narrative development, data mapping and data visualization through semantic categorization and self-organizin
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CMU Interaction Design program courses
Short summaries, no syllabus or reading list info.
HCI Publications at Stanford
Boatload of Stanford HCI papers for PDF perusal.
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Berkeley SIMS: 2005 Final Projects Showcase
Some idea of the types of projects Graduate students at SIMS are working on.
GUIR: Group for User Interface Research at UC Berkeley
Collection of short and long UI papers from Cal.
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Digital Media Program
Universitat der Kunste, Berlin
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Mefi admissions peeps chime in on what Grad schools value in their admissions process
Statement of Purpose, Personal statement, demonstrated ability / exp in field over undergrad GPA.
List of notable graduate Philosophy programs
Not that I’m considering it, but interesting.
Stanford Institute of Design
New design institute at Stanford, headed up among others by David Kelly of IDEO fame.
Carnegie Mellon’s Interaction Design program
Looks like most of the candidates have design degrees, not as quite interdisciplinary as the students at ITP NYU.
Site of Danny Safer
Interaction design graduate student at CMU’s Design school. Check out his blog for periodic updates on his courses and life at CMU.
Thinking about “Design Thinking”
Boiling the “Design thinking” buzzword down to its essential parts. Creating that 3rd alternative, prototyping a solution (not THE solution), dealing with complex and shifting problems, being open to interdisciplinary influences and putting emotion into
Live streams of ITP thesis presentations
Was active May 3rd through May 7th. With the interactive chat, it was kinda like being there.
Interaction Design Group’s resources library
Collection of ID resources including a list of graduate schools with ID programs.
Hello
John is currently thinking and designing in San Francisco.
Projects
Message Muni
A simple and forgiving text messaging service for San Francisco Muni arrival times.
DSButtons.com
DS Buttons are an invitation to play.
Collaborators
Adam DuVander
of WifiPDX and Simplicity Rules fame.
Josh Heumann
Polaroid alchemist extraordinaire.
Sean Madden
The Pixelnomad.
Name Redacted
Qué mysterioso.
Tom Watson
Stays up late over at 110am.