I'm on the verge of taking a job in the DC area and wanted to know if there
were any good programs in the area for UX or Interaction Design. Any help or
advice would be much appreciated. Thanks.
-Matthew Stephens
Co-Founder, deviantART.com
www.codebymatt.com
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Matthew,
You might want to search the IxDA posts of recent. There's been much
discussion on schools and UX/UI/IxD/Etc. I believe UMD or UBalt has HCI/IxD
type of programs. But I don't know much about these programs. If anyone on
the list is in one of these, I'd be curious to hear their thoughts
UMD has a great program - Schneiderman teaches there - and there are at
least a few people on the list that have gone there.
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 1:44 PM, David Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Matthew,
>
> You might want to search the IxDA posts of recent. There's been much
> discussion on
M.S. Interaction Design and Information Architecture
at the University of Baltimore
I am in the program since last year and it has been a great
experience. My background is in graphic design and I worked many
years as a web designer. Many students come from that field or
library sciences, business
Matthew,
I just finished my masters at GWU, located in DC at Foggy Bottom metro
station. There are only a handful of UX/UI seminars or classes. There are a
handful of cognitive psychology classes that can be taken to augment your
the required 10 classes but all-in-all it's a heavily computer scien
Matthew and David,
I graduated from the University of Maryland program at College Park as a
Psychology student.
I did research with Ben Shneiderman and was part of the human-computer
interaction lab even though
I was not a computer science student. The lab is composed of people
studying different
No personal experience with it, but if cognitive science is what you are
after, George Mason has a very good masters program. I've had people on my
team who went there. I think the focus tends to be more on transportation
and military applications than the web, but the principles apply just as
we
