[IxDA Discuss] So you want to be an IxD - education

[Dan Saffer]

On Sep 7, 2006, at 10:32 AM, Michael Tuminello wrote:

> People keep mentioning other programs, but I got the feeling that Dan
> Saffer was purposefully omitting most of them as recommendations,
> rather than having left them out as an oversight.
>
> I would be curious to confirm whether that is/is not the case.

Yes. I was only recommending programs that I personally knew about  
and liked the curriculum/faculty/methods.

There are programs that I knew about and deliberately omitted because  
I didn't like some or all of those things. Many of the HCI programs  
fall into this category, as do some that have been offered up here as  
alternatives. Just my opinion. Your mileage may vary. :)

There are others that I have heard good things about, but don't know  
much about personally (SCAD and Umea spring to mind).

A while ago I put together a list of all the IxD programs I was aware  
of that I felt taught interaction design from a design perspective:

http://resources.ixda.org/archive/2005/05/graduate-programs-in- 
interaction-design/

Dan



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