24 Interaction Design Preparatory Programs

The Diploma in Interactive Technologies and Game Design prepares graduates to work in the growing information technology industry that combines management, marketing, internet, multimedia, networking, and software technologies to enhance business efficiency.

Design thinking is core to many of the most successful businesses, and combines critical thinking and creativity to solve problems. Design thinking for innovation teaches you how to apply the best creative and analytical tools to develop real solutions for real needs, including personas, empathy mapping, prototyping, and iteration models.

Interaction Design is an interdisciplinary field merging design skills such as user experience, interface development, and graphic design with coding fundamentals to create meaningful experiences between the user and digital platforms such as social media, websites, wearables, and mobile devices.

This course, co-developed with industry leaders such as Symplicit, covers the latest trends in strategy development and interface design for business and digital experience. The course offers mastery of the main tools, techniques, and skills of interface design through a portfolio project using Figma.

This course is an introduction to the fundamentals of UX Design, with a strong focus on digital product design, covering all the steps from the basic UX processes, from user interviews to prototypes and usability testing. Through the course, you will be working on developing your own portfolio piece, which can be used to demonstrate your new skills immediately. Fully supported by expert mentors with access to industry leaders you will gain real-life skills to equip you for success from day one.

The program is open to individuals with a bachelor's degree and is especially useful for computer programmers, web designers, software engineers, human factors professionals, user interface designers, and others who wish to develop or enhance their user interface design and implementation skills.

The Media Arts program is a unique, interdisciplinary approach to the converging fields of journalism, communication and new media technology. It responds to the need for people skilled in effective communications in all levels of society including industry, education, art and music, and the public arena.

This programme teaches you to build systems and logic for games and interactive experiences. You will design and develop 3D productions with a focus on user experience. The programme is more technically focused than our other 3D programmes and includes tasks such as making objects respond to player actions, such as opening a door when the player presses a button.

The two-year Interaction Design diploma at CapU connects design and technology to prepare you for an exciting career in tech. As an interaction designer, your combination of creativity, design thinking and problem-solving skills help you thrive in the constantly evolving world of digital products. Your training will focus on areas such as user experience (UX) design and user interface (UI) design, user research, visual design, motion design, coding, branding, web/app design and working with new technologies and how to manage digital environments and workflows.

This is a two-week extensive hands-on course in interaction design. The main goal of the course is to empower people to shape their digital environment thus providing a new level of digital literacy. The course introduces core design and interaction design topics in a provocative stance, inviting participants to reflect upon ongoing shifts, connections, and re-framings in just about every area of interaction design, and inciting a rebellion against passivity.

Explore the nature and aesthetics of interaction design. Practice creativity in a hands-on studio environment. This five-day workshop focuses on interaction design foundations, history, critique, aesthetics, and contemporary issues in a studio environment. It provides a great intro to new practitioners as well as an in-depth exploration of interaction design foundations for experienced designers.

Never before has the design + education communities come together in a more electric way! Introducing V School’s User Experience Design Course. We have literally assembled the founders/creators at some of the best creative agencies in the country, to create a curriculum + teach the design concepts that are leading the industry. V School’s skill-builder (part-time) course is engineered for the individual within the design or frontend development fields looking to make a switch to UX Design or level-up their overall skills.

Interactive Media Design is a new media landscape that is ripe with endless career opportunities that will test the limits of your imagination while providing a powerful and meaningful entertainment experience to consumers. If you’re looking for a career creating magic, the Interactive Media Design program will give you the skills to bring your creativity to life in digital media design, development, and production.

As a leading centre for new digital media, Vancouver is the ideal place to study Web Development and Interactive Design. At VanArts, you will receive the city's only program which offers a 40-40-20 split between web design, programming, and business development, all under the guidance of working professionals in the field. Through hands-on classes based on current and future trends for web and mobile development and design, you emerge fully equipped with the necessary skills and industry contacts to launch your career in this thriving industry.

As a leading centre for new digital media, Vancouver is the ideal place to study Web Development and Interactive Design. At VanArts, you will receive the city's only program which offers a 40-40-20 split between web design, programming and business development, all under the guidance of working professionals in the field.