Year 1 sequence recommended for those specializing in interaction design
This page suggests a sequence of Year 1 courses for students on the Interaction Design programme at IUAV University of Venice aiming for a professional career in interaction design.
YEAR 1
Semester 1
Design lab every afternoon except Wednesday:
Interaction Design Lab 1 (Laboratorio di interaction design 1, Gillian Crampton Smith)
Monday + Tuesday 9-11
Interaction Design Theory 1 (Design dell’interazione, Gillian Crampton Smith)
Friday 9-13
Web information Systems (Sistemi di elaborazione dell'informazione, Davide Riboli)
Semester 2
Design lab every afternoon except Wednesday
Interaction Design Lab 2 (Laboratorio di interaction design 2, Philip Tabor)
Monday + Tuesday 9-11
Interaction Design Theory 2 (Tecnologie Digitali, Davide Rocchesso)
Monday + Tuesday 11-13
Cognitive Psychology (Psicologia dei processi cognitivi, Vittorio Girotto)
YEAR 2
Students aiming for a professional career in interaction design will normally repeat the interaction design labs (the projects change each year) to deepen their understanding, improve their practice, and strengthen their interaction design portfolio. (Students with product design experience may also take interaction design studio courses provided by the Product Design track in Year 2). In the second year there is a wide choice of complementary theoretical studies open to students.
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