Interaction Design Course

In the fast-paced world of new media, gadgets, devices and integrated systems, the role of the interaction designer is critical as it facilitates the user to become comfortable and integrated with multiple interfaces. Interaction design is as much about technology and software skills, as it is about human centred design and the goal of the field is to facilitate the interaction between users and technology. Here, the definition of technology encompasses both material and immaterial identities. At The Design Village, the Interaction Design programme considers multi-facets of the field making TDV amongst the best Interaction Design colleges in Delhi.

The Interaction Design programme at TDV focuses on designing and developing interactive digital products, environments, systems, and services responding to our changing environment. The students are trained in skills of visualization and communication, ethnography studies, research methods, brand building and many such multi focal courses that give them a holistic understanding of their field of work.

The programme follows an integrated approach where students look at the domain in the larger context of India and the world. This helps to bring together the concepts and values of sustainability, environmental studies and living traditions. The curriculum helps in sensitizing students towards consumption and confronts them with the responsibility that has to be taken for this cause. The versatile curriculum of the programme allows it to be amongst the best Interaction Designing courses in Delhi and TDV to be one of the best Interaction Designing institute in Delhi and Noida.

The focus of the programme is to equip the students with tools and techniques which can help them to become a Interaction Designer who doesn’t only solve problems of today but also proposes new ways for the future. Areas of focus include :

• Physical computing and Creative coding, Interface design and interactive devices are a few focused and comprehensive courses that equip the students to be able to intervene in any of the multiple domains that are impacted by interaction design.
• Communication skills – Animation, game design, video prototyping and rendering techniques enable the students to communicate their visualizations better and lead to more gratifying experience for the user.
• Human centred design – UX and UI become important aids that facilitate the design explorations of the interaction design student at TDV. Courses like colour theory, ethnography, psychology help in keeping the students’ focus on the users.

The pedagogy at The Design Village is driven by intrinsic motivation, personal responsibility of the students and lifetime learning attitude, all of which is held together by support of facilitators. The journey of a student is based on the learning manifesto of each student and the itinerary chalked out to achieve it and hence the journey undertaken by every design villager at TDV is unique, and bespoke and it does not have to cease at the end of four years.

Although the journey is individual, the villager is not alone. There is a support system of relevant people, to assist the villagers at every junction.

Each villager charters their own personal learning path. This path is custom made for them with a great mix and match of experiences, projects and tools through three streams of interrelated activities:

• Taskbox:It includes design problems of various scales and durations derived from real-life situations.
• Basket:It is a cluster of courses characterized by a common theme, discipline or learning objective.
• Villaging:It consists of the activities for personal development, with the goal to build the TDV community and oneself.

The pedagogy makes TDV a unique and the best institute for interior design in Noida and Delhi.

The curriculum for Bachelor’s degree in Interaction Design is designed in such a way that over a course of four years, students will become aware of themselves and their values. They will understand what they consider important in the world and how to let this drive their design education. This gives students the freedom to choose what kind of Interaction Designer they want to become as they evolve.

Briefs for taskbox are offered in a variety of contexts ranging from lifestyle products, public services, accessories to a range of cross disciplinary as well as manifestation independent ones. In basket courses students will go through courses like Creative Coding, Physical Computing, Web technologies, Animation, Video Prototyping, Interface design and Game design. Through 10 design projects the students are encouraged to apply this learning and much more while working with real world problems and clients. In addition courses like Implications of Design, Visual Aesthetics, Conflicting concerns, Context Mapping, Design for values, and many more are offered as electives alongside. The villaging modules are intentionally the same for all the programmes to ensure development of the self and the village community.

The field of interaction design is evolving at the pace which is hard to gauge. Future trends forecast how we interact with our devices will not be limited to touch or visuals but will soon start employing other senses. In this light, there are plenty of opportunities for students after graduating as Bachelor of Interaction Design. A student can choose to engage in their career as:

• User Interface Designer
• User Experience Designer
• Web Designer
• Experience Designer
• Animation Designer
• Audio Visual Designer
• New Age Media Designer
• Mobile Application Designer
• Film Maker
• Brand Manager
• Design Entrepreneur
• Strategy Designer
• Design Researcher
• Systems Designer
• Social Designer
• Chief Design Officer
• Chief Creative Officer
• Design Thinker
• Design Manager

Necessary and intense support is provided by TDV facilitators to help kickstart careers of young Design Villagers.