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IXDGR-6700-2: IxD Studio: Form

Fall 2024

Subject: Graduate Interaction Design
Type: Studio
Delivery Mode: In-Person
Level: Graduate

Campus: San Francisco
Course Dates: August 28, 2024 — December 10, 2024
Meetings: Tue 4:00-07:00PM, Main Bldg - W2
Instructor: Shawn Sprockett

Units: 3.0
Enrolled: 14/15 Closed

Description:

This course presents the fundamentals of language and graphic surface design currently central to the practice of Interface Design. Visual fundamentals will be explored such as hierarchy, layout, grid, line, image, shape, typography and legibility, and how these interact and combine in a design that works. Students will investigate these concepts using a series of traditional design exercises and conceptual explorations using a variety of hand and digital tools, with particular focus paid to how a user reads and interprets an encounter with a given design and how affordances are created through form. In addition to studying the role that vision and attention span play in these situations, the course will expand these foundations to touch upon how these concepts relate to other sensory input and feedback modalities like auditory, tactile, and motion. Projects will utilize various canvases such as print, screen, web, car, mobile as well as objects with close attention paid to their evolution, as well as their strengths and weaknesses.

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