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NM 320 Intermediate Interactive Design Instructor: Curt Cloninger / curt at lab404 dot com NM 320 explores the core principles of interaction design. (Interaction design is design that connects people through the products and services they use.) Elements of interaction design include semiotics, navigation, user-experience design, information architecture, graphic design, user-interface engineering, usability engineering, human factors, industrial design, and human-computer interaction. The projects and assignments required in this class are time-intensive and require an average of 9 hours each week on the computer either in this lab or on your own computer that contains the software used in the class. The Pre-requisite for this class is NM 222. Student Learning Objectives In this course you will: Improve your interactive design skills, allowing you to clearly communicate concepts and create work relevant to contemporary culture. Apply technology to construct innovative, clever, interactive experiences. Locate information presented in linear formats, and recontextualize it in interactive formats. Recognize your own agency as a media artist, and become confident exercising that agency to modulate and change the world. Required Materials: Bulldog email account -- check regularly Student web hosting space (for posting work) Flash drive, notebook or sketchbook, graph paper, pencils, and pens

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