Digital Interaction Design

Amar Latif visited our 3rd Year Digital Interaction Design and Product Design students this autumn. Amar is an entrepreneur, founder of the Traveleyes company and is blind. He discussed the role that digital technology plays in his life and demoed VoiceOver on his iPhone, which he uses...

It was a sad day for interaction design and product design when Bill Moggridge died in September. Bill had been so inspirational and influential, in so many ways: in 1982 he designed the world's first laptop, the Grid Compass; in the 1980s he pioneered Interaction Design, and its notion of bringing design sensibilities to digital technology; in...

In July, Product Design and Digital Interaction Design exhibited together for the first time at New Designers in London, with support from Microsoft Research. Being right next to the entrance we were very, very busy and visitors said they loved the display of our process....

In June, Kristian Simsarian of California College of the Arts (CCA) and Graham Pullin co-hosted the first Bachelors of Interaction Design (BIxD) Symposium in San Francisco. Undergraduate programmes are still pioneering (there are many more at Masters level). Participants included...

VIEW VIDEO:'Calum Pringle Interview'

In this video 3rd year student Virginia Vila Palacin interviews ex-graduate Calum Pringle about his experience of our course and how it has helped him in his professional work. Calum graduated in 2010 and is now working as an Interaction...

Second year Digital Interaction Design students present their Apps for Artists project. We will be exhibiting our work from this semester on Thursday the 26th of April in the North DIxD studios, between 5-7pm. In this project we worked to produce iOS apps for 3rd year Fine Art and APCP students. Pop in to our pop up exhibition! There shall be...

Level 4 DiXD student Ro Ramtohul's degree project "reculture has been featured on US tech blog WP7 Connect.
Ro's project concerns educating people about physical gestures used by different cultures, and makes use of (amongst other technologies) Windows 7 Phone and Microsoft Kinect.
You can see the blog...

Level 3 students have been working on a project where they were asked to conceive, design and prototype an app for a grandperson.

On the first stage of the project, every student worked individually with a specific grandperson (grandparents, parents, other relatives, etc.) trying to come up with a solution to an everyday life problem of...

As part of the Apps for Grandpeople module we explored the work of Sunni Brown and visual note-taking. You can follow in our foot steps by following the links below. As a class we took visual notes to the 'visual notetaking 101' lecture, you can see my notes in the image attatched. 

Links:
Doodling myths with Sunni Brown:...

Final year Digital Interaction Design and Product Design students held a Projects Day on 1 November 2011. Our invited guests included Tim Regan of Microsoft, user-centred innovation consultant Martin Bontoft, Chris van der Kuyl of...