interactive design
Since I officially applied to the Creative Circus, I’ve constantly been asked, “What is Interactive Design?” and in terms of my own study I’ve always explained it away as being a hybrid between design and development.
This quarter (my third at the Circus) is the first time I’ll be taking an explicit Interactive Design course. Its exciting, but also still difficult to explain exactly what I’m studying. Titles like interactive designer, graphic designer, UX designer and front end developer are, in the current marketplace, increasingly fluid, as we discussed in our first class.
While I still don’t have a concise definition, I’m also really excited about this sort interdisciplinary approach. One of the major reasons I wanted to pursue this track is that I’m interested in understanding how users consume and interact with content beyond the traditional film and television venues I had worked in before. In the next ten weeks, I’ll be posting little snippets from the class that will hopefully illuminate this a little more.