Digital Interaction Design - Course Outline

Level 1

A suite of modules that introduce you to core design skills, people centred research methods and ask you to respond to your first Digital Interaction Design briefs.

Level 2

Deepening your thinking around graphical interfaces, user research and prototyping, for example:

• Interaction design: user interfaces and information design
• Software and programming
• Designing social networks
• Design process: prototyping digital futures

Level 3

Exploring interactions beyond screen-based interfaces, often with industry involvement, for example:

• Creating interactive objects, exhibits, clothing, furniture or spaces
• Interactive product design
• Designing mobile apps
• Elective modules

Level 4

Devoted mainly to your own personal project, helping you to develop your own area of expertise and portfolio.

• Major personal project
• Elective modules (dissertation/design and the market/made in china)
• Degree show exhibition

*: subject to change as the field and our course evolves

What others have said about course:

"It bridges the generations of people, but actually I think it was just as elegant how it bridged the generations of technologies: [your grandfather] speaks in the technology of his day and you view in the technology of your day and it's seamlessthat's elegant and I've not seen that before... so thank you"
Bill Buxton, Principal Researcher, Microsoft reviewing Storyteller, Storyteller by IMD and Product Design Level 2 students

"I was pretty blown away by the quality and sensitivity put into all the work, and the fact that the students had been so creative in their production of smoke-and-mirror or in some cases fully working prototypes."
Richard Banks, Interaction Designer at Microsoft Research, Cambridge reviewing Microsoft Design Expo 2008, Objects for Grandpeople (IMD and Product Design Level 2)

"...the fabulous, quirky and poetic Museum of Lost Interactions (MoLI)."
Regine Debatty, We Make Money Not Art (read by 50,000 people)

"I don't know what it is they're doing up there in Dundee, but it seems to be working."
Jack Schofield, Computer Editor, The Guardian reviewing the Museum of Lost Interactions (Level 3 IMD)

To apply to study Digital Interaction Design at DJCAD, University of Dundee, submit your application to UCAS using Institution Code D65 and Course Code WG24.