Interaction Design
About the Interaction Design Program
CCA’s Interaction Design Program prepares students to create meaningful and innovative designed experiences in the realms of work, lifestyle, and play—from computers and mobile devices to interactive physical spaces, games, and social networks.
By learning investigative research, systemic thinking, creative prototyping, and hands-on building, Interaction Design students are prepared to succeed and lead in this exciting field. Students develop technical skills (wireframes, flows, visuals, motion) for interactive canvases such as mobile, desktop, car, game console, film, sculpture, clothes, buildings and applications that can be applied to numerous industries, from business to entertainment to education to health.
Our program takes a studio-based, collaborative, playful approach to preparing students for careers in this creative, vibrant and in-demand field.
Why Interaction Design?
Interaction Design is about people and what happens in the in-between. We are in an age where the power to connect in new ways feels limitless. There is an exciting and important opportunity to shape the future to serve, empower, and delight people and society.
That's the purpose of CCA's new Interaction Design Program.
Watch chair Kristian Simsarian address how to educate the next generation of interaction designers »
Multidisciplinary Curriculum
Interaction Design students study a deep and broad curriculum in interaction design, creating a robust foundation of interaction design basics upon which the studio-based project work is built.
In addition to the coursework within the Interaction Design Program, CCA students benefit from the breadth of our undergraduate programs as well as CCA's core curriculum. The connections between Interaction Design and other programs are limited only by students' interests and imagination.
Students will be encouraged to take elective courses among CCA’s 21 diverse programs, enriching their skills and gaining experience in cross-disciplinary experimentation and collaboration: Architecture, Fashion Design, film, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, and Sculpture, among others.
The fields listed above are just a few of the fields waiting to be explored. Coursework in human perception and the social sciences will further develop critical thinking and the ability to design solutions to the world's real challenges.
Bay Area Location
And what better place to do this than at CCA, situated in the hub of the digital world with a rich heritage and impressive facilities? CCA is founded on the belief that creative work is powerful and can contribute positively to the world.
Together, we are building a world-class Interaction Design Program. And it's a program that is building amazing students who can have amazing life-long careers. The Interaction Design Program at CCA isn’t about connecting devices; it’s about connecting people to the things—and the other people—they care about most.
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