
Advanced Diploma in Interaction Design
Toronto, Canada
DURATION
3 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Jan 2025
TUITION FEES
CAD 21,100 / per year
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
Introduction
As a student in the Interaction Design program, you will merge design skills such as user experience, interface development, and visual design with programming to create meaningful experiences between the user, digital and physical platforms, such as websites, wearables, and mobile devices.
Modified by the psychological, social, economic, and cultural factors that shape our present and future world, this ever-evolving field envisions new ways of human-computer interaction within systems, services, products, and spaces across multiple industries.
Throughout the Interaction Design program, you will be expected to address topics including mixed realities, immersive environments, usability, spatial relations, and human factors. An emphasis on usability testing, research, collaboration and real-world projects distinguishes this program.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Scholarships for international students at George Brown College are generally in-program awards based on students’ academic performance (and other criteria) at George Brown College after the beginning of the academic program.
Curriculum
Required Courses
Semester 1 | Semester 2 |
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Semester 3 | Semester 4 |
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Semester 5 | Semester 6 |
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**Based on the results of your placement test, you may be required to take COMM 1000 Introduction to College Communication before progressing to COMM 1007. COMM 1000 does not count as a course required for graduation, and you will be charged for this extra course.
Program Outcome
The graduate demonstrates the ability to:
- Collaborate in a team environment with various stakeholders to design multi-disciplinary products and services.
- Apply the appropriate tools that allow for designing, building, visualizing, and programming digital interactive experiences.
- Assess the requirements of a complex interactive media project.
- Plan the development and execution of an interaction design project in response to resource and budgetary requirements.
- Design a complex media project (interface, navigation, graphics, text treatment) using best practice design and development principles, and applying conceptual and theoretical frameworks.
- Make interactive products, environments, systems, and services using appropriate technologies, materials, and manufacturing methods.
- Perform all work in compliance with regulations, legislation, security policies, industry standards, and codes of ethics.
- Use research skills to assess and inform optimal digital user experience within interactive interfaces.
- Apply creative and innovative thinking techniques to manage change and solve design problems.
- Make recommendations based on human-computer interaction design guidelines to improve user experiences with interaction design.
- Design an interactive product or service that delivers a usable interactive experience.
- Contribute to a variety of interactive platforms and environments, incorporating the principles and elements of design.
- Create a design solution in accordance with strategies, recommendations, and state-of-the-art methodologies.
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
Your Career
Graduates of this program will have acquired the skills necessary to be employed in various digital media studios, with careers such as:
- Information architect
- Interaction designer
- Mobile designer
- Mobile developer
- Production artist
- 3D visualization artist
- Motion designer
- User experience designer
- User interface developer
- Web designer
- Web developer
- SEO/SEM specialist