> Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 03:20:54 > From: David Malouf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] What to teach interaction design students > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > GREAT thread. Before I go all up and theoretical, I wanted to point > people to Jon Kolko's work in this regard. He is my predecessor at > SCAD as the Prof of IxD there. He has his course materials and other > thoughts on IxD education on his site: > http://www.jonkolko.com/education.php
I've been following the thread, and enjoying the discussion. Having placed ~99% of my 50 or so interaction design undergraduates in interaction design jobs or grad degree programs, it looks like the interaction curriculum I developed with Professor Bob Fee works. That said, the reason it worked so well is because the students I had were passionate, aggressive, interested, and fired up - and the ones who weren't realized quickly that they couldn't hack it in courses that were as demanding as industry. And so the best suggestion I can give to someone structuring an interaction design program [really, any design program at all] is to make it demanding, challenging and difficult, and do your best to establish a reputation for it and yourself as being equally as demanding, challenging and difficult. The students learn to self-select classes based on reputation, and you control quality through word of mouth. After my experience teaching, I'm solidly of the belief that anyone can learn any design "skill" - any practical ability and set of methods - but not everyone has or can acquire the passion and fire to learn something as challenging and as ambiguous as design. A good curriculum and a good professor exists, essentially, to feed the fire of passion. - Jon Kolko Co-Editor-In-Chief, interactions http://interactions.acm.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
