Course description
Master in Interaction Design.
Master Courses - Barcelona
The Master in Interaction Design aims to train professionals who aspire to be tomorrow’s digital leaders equipped with the collaborative, critical thinking and technical skills required to react, adapt and leverage the impacts of digital transformation and understand how the digital can be harnessed for strategic design.
The Master provides an environment of creativity, design and technological innovation by focusing on projects through a future lens. It provides students with the skillset and mindset to challenge the status quo and produce well-rounded designers who can work across disciplinary, cultural and geographical boundaries to design solutions addressing future individual, societal and business needs by nurturing curiosity, experimentation, technical skills and critical thinking, as well as empathic, collaborative skills.
Complementary Module.
Check the new Research & Publish Module course, a complementary module with a duration of 6 months, that provides an introduction to the main theoretical and practical tools for research and reflection that are generated in the field of communicating and disseminating projects in the field of design so that students can acquire the skills to document their work correctly, communicate it properly to their target audience and disseminate it through the most appropriate channels. Request more information to your advisor.
CREDITS: 60*
DURATION: 9 MONTHS
ATTENDANCE: FULL-TIME
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
Methodology.
The Master is divided into 2 stages, each a module: the first is a cross-cutting stage in which students are taught core skills for disciplines that address future needs, followed by a second specialised stage in which students can further develop their skillsets in the discipline of their choice: digital management, creative coding, UX/UI design or digital fabrication.
Objectives.
To acquire the necessary theoretical and technological knowledge for the digital labour market.
To develop wide-ranging skills in the design, production and leadership of interactive projects.
To learn from the major leading companies in the sector.
To create a broad professional portfolio based on real briefs.
To access the city’s business and cultural context.
To master new digital fabrication tools and software.
To promote efficient, multidisciplinary, collaborative, work.
To improve communication skills for public presentations.
To enhance student autonomy through self-assessment and learning by doing.
To encourage creativity, experimentation and innovation.
Student profile.
- Design and communication professionals with a passion for new technologies.
- Designers who want to learn how to program and programmers with UX/UI interests.
- Future entrepreneurs and producers from the digital sector.
- Makers, product designers and digital artists.
- Managers and creatives from the world of advertising and communication.
Job opportunities.
- Interface design and user experience positions (UX, UI) in design studios and digital content companies.
- Event producer and project leader in advertising agencies.
- Provider of facilities and interactive experiences for events and congresses.
- Maker sector professionals in fab labs and digital fabrication spaces.
- Creative in communication agencies specialising in technology and new media.
*Credits
The educational planning for all IED Master courses is aligned with the criteria established by the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). The IED Master program adopts a credit structure that follows the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS). IED Master only awards its own private degrees.
SPECIFIC MODULE.
KEY SUBJECTS.
EXPERIENCE DESIGN
USER INTERFACE DESIGN
DESIGN THINKING
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
PROTOTYPING
PHYSICAL INTERFACES
FRONT-END
OTHER SUBJECTS.
DESIGN STRATEGY
SOUND COMMUNICATION
DIGITAL MARKETING
INTERNET OF THINGS
MASTERCLASSES.
HISTORY OF INTERACTION DESIGN
ANTHROPOLOGIE AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE
ACCESSIBILITY
COMMON MODULE.
INTERACTION DESIGN COMMON MODULE
For more than fifty years, the Istituto Europeo di Design has been operating in the fields of education and research in the disciplines of design, fashion, visual communication and management. Today, the IED is a constantly expanding international network that issues first-level academic diplomas and organises three-year courses, Masters courses, continuous professional development and advanced training courses.
