Breaking Down Barriers: The AI Interview Bot Debate and Disability Discrimination by Becky Hwang In today’s fast-paced world of technology and innovation, AI...
Some prospective students may have the impression that the MFA in Interaction Design program only has courses that focus on design. I was...
Please join us in celebrating “EVOLVE,” the School of Visual Arts’ 2023 MFA Interaction Design Thesis Festival. The culmination of the two-year program, the Festival...
My Journey: I was born and raised in Shenzhen, China. In August 2016, I came to the US with my large and heavy...
In September 2021, I started my MFA in Interaction Design at the School of Visual Arts. Coming from a communication design background, I...
I was fifteen years old sitting in my sophomore year English class when I first saw it. The smart board flickered on and...
Back in 2015, the passion for combining art and engineering had drawn me to architecture, a traditional design discipline, in my undergraduate. About...
Meet the students of the Class of 2023! Over the next few weeks, we’ll be highlighting incoming students, so our community can get...
Meet the students of the Class of 2022! This is the last in a series of posts highlighting our newest class, as well as their...
Kat Holmes spoke to IxD about how the inclusive design principles behind her book can be used to reshape the world we live...
At one time, long before I was a designer, I was a theater student. Theater students, with certainty and on more than one...
Back in 2003 I wrote a bowling game in QBasic. I have been writing code since I was 12 years old. So yes, I...
It was late morning, I had slept in (truly an event worthy of celebration these days) and I was in the living room,...
Class of 2017’s Elushika Weerakoon caught up with Class of 2011’s Chia-Wei Liu for our latest Alumni Spotlight, who told us all about...
“There’s often a visceral point in the interview where the exchange shifts from a back-and-forth of question-and-answer, question-and-answer to a question-story setup. It’s...
We’re pleased to announce that online applications are open! Prospective students for the Class of 2020 can now apply online through January 15, 2018. Find...
The past year has been quite an exciting ride for me, from moving to New York, starting a master’s program at the School...
“Pay no attention to that huge computer behind the curtain.” — Dan O’Sullivan and Tom Igoe, Physical Computing I find myself somewhere in the middle...
“Learning and designing are inextricably linked. The act of designing is always an act of learning.” — Liz Danzico, forward to How they...
Entrepreneurial Design, one of our Spring semester classes taught by Gary Chou and Christina Xu, feels like a right of passage. The first years...
In the Spring semester of the first year, the students are tasked with launching a Kickstarter campaign that will make at least $1,000....
We use brands to project who we want to be in the world, how we want people to perceive us, and how we...
Everytime when I see Min in school, I screamed her name, MIN!! She is one of the friendliest and shyest classmates. But don’t...
For our first field visit of the semester, Munawar Ahmed our instructor for Leadership, Ethics and Professional Practices took us to Intersection, the...
It’s been 3 weeks since we are back for our last semester ever. And what busy 3 weeks it has been. We already...
When I was home over winter break, my dad asked me if I had spent more time working in my first semester at...
If you’ve given thought to attending graduate school in interaction design, the deadline for applications is fast approaching: January 15, 2017. Any application received after...
As our graduate school days are getting shorter and shorter, I have worked with most of my classmates. I am close with some...
The current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is very likely human-induced and proceeding at a rate that is...
Anthony talks to the Product of Design students (and some Ixd's) “Rather than thinking about architecture, products, and the environments, We start with...
Welcome to the first week of the apocalypse. Excuse me…the Trump era. I can think of no better distraction than looking at these awesome Physical Computing...
During our Public interfaces class, we visited Cooper Hewitt. For some of us it was the first time and the rest have made...
The entire world is watching the U.S. in this historical election and for some, it feels like a bad dream that you trying...
Kohzy and Ted | Interior of Final Frontier Design Last week, my class had the luxury of visiting Final Frontier Design. Our newly...
As grad students at SVA we have access to something called the Visible Futures Lab. It’s a fabrication lab on the 7th floor...
First-year MFA Interaction Design students at the Reception for New Graduate Students. We’re pleased to announce that online applications are open! Prospective students...
This video was filmed during the 1960’s predicting the future of 1999.The common theme of the video was everything is computerized at your...
Summer is always “my time” to catch up on activities I can’t seem to fit into my September-May schedule. There is something about...
The role of design and designers in society and the marketplace is changing. In the new publication LEAP Dialogues, 84 designers, educators, and...
Interview by Elushika Weerakoon I am here to tell you about an unique project, that my classmates David Al-Ibrahim and Saba Singh have...
This year’s Webby Award nominees have been announced and among the nominees are IxD faculty and alumni. The Webby Awards are the leadinginternational award...
Reblogged from elushika: The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda If you don’t remember anything else, memorize The One. “Simplicity is about subtracting...
Reblogged from elushika: I got my very first work experience when I was in high school. I was volunteering at the Audubon zoo...
Congratulations to Song Lee and Kohzy Koh on winning the 2016 IxDA Student Design Challenge! Students from all around the world competed in...
Reblogged from elushika: Ever since I partnered up with Ruth to create a game about pessimism and optimism, I found out that people...
The 9th annual interaction design conference organized by the IxDA is happening right now in Helsinki, Finland. Students and alumni are in attendance...
Reblogged from elushika: After a year passed my interest in comedy deteriorated and I wanted to go back to do more design. I...
Reblogged from elushika: I only write when I have to. I know writing is important, especially when you must discuss your process as...
Reblogged from elushika: I was assigned to watch a TED video by Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience and memory. He talked about...
Reblogged from elushika: For some of us it was the first time experiencing snow and for the rest it was nothing new. So...
Reblogged from elushika: These some of the things we have in store for this semester. Spring 2016 will bring us new challengers and...
This week saw our second year students starting their final semester! Deborah Koo decided to ask her fellow classmate Max Kessler a few...
Happy new year! The deadline for applications is fast approaching: Friday, January 15, 2016, just days away! Any application received after this date...
Reblogged from elushika: Just to sum up how finals felt for all of us, here are some common tags used: #wait #nosleep #whatjusthappened...
Reblogged from elushika: Finally, keep your ego out. Having an ego does not help in graduate school. Saying that you know about everything...
The end of our semester is nearing and I have gotten to know most of my classmates. Some interesting classmates to say the...
(Source: Second Story Workshop, 2013) If you’ve given thought to graduate school in interaction design, the deadline for applications is fast approaching: Friday,...
Reblogged from dmxatixd: ˈprōdəˌtīp/ noun: prototype 1.a first, typical or preliminary model of something, especially a machine, from which other forms are developed...
Reblogged from elushika: Thanksgiving break was short, but needed. The break gave us a bit of breathing room before our finals, which are...
Reblogged from dmxatixd: So, after creating my test plan, which you can read more about here, I moved into the logistics of the...
Reblogged from dmxatixd: Over the past two weeks, I’ve spent much of my time planning and executing a few thesis prototypes. I started...
Reblogged from dmxatixd: Monday I had the pleasure of attending the Tech808 Conference. Tech 808, hosted by Phat Startup, is the only hip...
By Elushika Weerakoon I felt that our midterms were comparable to a hurricane thattossed us around, gave us 3 hours of sleep and...
Reblogged from dmxatixd: This week I took a group trip to Washington Square Park, for Public Interfaces class. Our final project requires us...
Reblogged from elushika: The Class of 2017, takes halloween very seriously with amazing costumes and a lot of pumpkin beer. Here are some...
Reblogged from dmxatixd: Dream work, duh! This week I’ve been really focused on developing my thesis idea. In addition to playing Pictionary, which...
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Reblogged from dmxatixd: Usually before classes start we’re all finding food and drinks (as you can see from all the drinks on the...
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A typical week at IxD, Open House 2014 We’re pleased to announce that online applications are open! Prospective students for the Class of...
Reblogged from dmxatixd: The Printing Women exhibit had no interactive or tactile elements, making it a bit difficult for me to engage and...
Reblogged from elushika: Oh, what a week… I just had my first month anniversary of grad school and it was a mix of...
Reblogged from dmxatixd: This week I thought I’d try something different and share my some highlights of my week. Monday It was Sun-Young’s...
Reblogged from elushika: This week, a couple of my instructors in school recommended that we go and see a talk by Sara Hendren....
Credit: Josh Sucher The NYC Media Lab’s Annual Summit tookplace over the weekend, described as “a snapshot of the best thinking,projects, and talent...
Reblogged from dmxatixd: This week, I thought I’d let gifs depict how things are going. I polled my classmates for one word descriptions...
Reblogged from elushika: My research methods class has posed an interesting challenge, which is to re-think the user experience of the SVA library....
Reblogged from elushika: Image by Shane Strassberg Second week is done and I survived. By far one of my favorite classes was Physical Computing....
Reblogged from dmxatixd: As I head into week 3 of my second year, I must admit, I already feel stressed about thesis. After...
Reblogged from youexdee: I’ve been thinking a lot about data, but it didn’t always start out that way. Last semester, the primary problem...
Reblogged from dmxatixd: Welcome back! It feels good to be back in school after a summer of experiencing “the real world”. This summer...
Reblogged from elushika: My grad school experience began when we had our orientation on the first week of September. It was an all...
Meet the 18 students who will make up the Class of 2017. Over the next few weeks, we’ll highlight three incoming students. Today:...
With summer almost over and fall about to set in, it’s timeto meet the students who will make up the Class of 2017....
