Interactive Design

  • IAD

    What is Interactive Design?

    The Bachelor of Science with a major in Interactive Design provides students with an interdisciplinary, hands-on approach to developing the technical, theoretical, and creative skills needed to serve in the field of interactive design as interaction designers, user interface designers, and information visualization designers. This approach to design merges technical knowledge and aesthetic creativity with an ultimate focus on the human needs of end users. Students will combine practical prototyping skills with theoretical and technical approaches to front-end digital design and culture. The emphasis here is on creating well-rounded designers who are suited to meet the growing marketplace need for interactive design.

    Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences

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    Admission Requirements

    None.

    This program does not have specific admission requirements. Only admission to Kennesaw State University is required to declare this major.

    Related Minors or Certificates Available

    • Technical Communication Certificate
    • Interactive Design Minor
    • Technical Communication Minor

    Sample Classes

    • This course introduces students to productivity tools and technologies for Technical Communication and Interactive Design students. In this course, students learn the Adobe design tools in addition to examining workflow tools, online workspaces, and project management tools.

    • This course improves students’ abilities to describe their accomplishments in professional networking situations, company meetings, and interviews. This course also explains how to set up a personal portfolio and prepare a career development roadmap for students in Technical Communication and Interactive Design.

    • This class engages in a qualitative analysis of the relationship between digital technologies and end users. In doing so, this course exposes designers-in-training to ethnographic approaches as a way to understand and empathize with end users, a core feature of user experience design. Students read anthropological texts and apply this knowledge to ethnographies related to understanding ends users.

    • This course introduces students to front-end web development with an emphasis on learning to code websites without relying on content management systems or templates. This course focuses primarily on HTML and CSS in addition to covering basic user interface design principles.

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