The MFA in Interaction Design program trains students to
research, analyze, prototype, and design concepts in their
business, social, and cultural contexts.
Today, business success depends on the presence of a well-designed, engaging experience, and the new MFA in Interaction Design program explores the strategic role of interaction design in shaping everyday life.
As one of the only graduate-level degrees dedicated to interaction design in the United States, this program trains students to research, analyze, prototype, and design concepts in their business, social, and cultural contexts.
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Featured Student Work
- Designing Local Currency
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Communicating Design with Jason Santa Maria.
Students were assigned the task of designing their own local currency. Inspired by Ithaca Hours and BerkShares, students pulled a neighborhood out of a hat, and were asked to research their neighborhood to determine what characteristics should be represented on its currency.
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News
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- Breaking Ground at the Visible Futures Lab
February 6, 2012
- Progress report on the Visible Futures Lab, which gives students enrolled in the MFA Interaction Design and the MFA Products of Design programs a home to make, model, tinker, and innovate across disciplines, using both high-tech and traditional tools.
- Breaking Ground at the Visible Futures Lab
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- Value of Web Presence, or on No More Resumes
February 6, 2012
- Faculty member, and associate at Union Square Ventures, Christina Cacioppo was in the Wall Street Journal talking about the hiring process at USV where instead of the résumé, they evaluate an applicant's "web presence."
- Value of Web Presence, or on No More Resumes
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- Paul Ford on the Epiphanator On The Media
February 5, 2012
- Faculty member and writer Paul Ford speaks from Brooke Gladstone from On the Media this weekend about Facebok and "the Epiphanator."
- Paul Ford on the Epiphanator On The Media
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Events
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- On the Verge: Dennis Crowley and Mark Shepard
Thursday, February 9
Dennis Crowley and Mark Shepard inhabit practices verging interaction design.
- On the Verge: Dennis Crowley and Mark Shepard
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- On the Verge: Geoff Manaugh and Jer Thorp
Friday, March 23
Geoff Manaugh and Jer Thorp inhabit practices verging interaction design.
- On the Verge: Geoff Manaugh and Jer Thorp
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- On the Verge: Zach Frechette and Molly Wright Steenson, moderated by Steward Smith
Friday, April 6
Zach Frechette and Molly Wright Steenson inhabit practices verging interaction design.
- On the Verge: Zach Frechette and Molly Wright Steenson, moderated by Steward Smith
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