Interaction Design Summer School @ FEUP

20 Jun 2013

The summer 2013 course will focus on the development of an Interaction Design project from a user-centered design approach.

Within the Digital Media Summer Institute 2013 we present the Interaction Design Summer School by Bruno Nobre and Cláudia Pernencar, Digital Media Ph.D. students from the UT Austin|Portugal Program and invited assistant professors from IADE-U (Institute of Art, Design and Enterprise - University). This course will be held at the Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto (www.fe.up.pt) from July 8th to July 19th.

The course will focus on the development of an Interaction Design project from a user-centered design approach. This will give an overview of the principles, processes, and tools that supports interaction design, focused in the pursuit for innovative and lateral thinking in the creation of interactive media.
Students will be able to plan and develop an interactive prototype through design thinking processes and applying user experience design methods.
The first week include classes in the morning and afternoon and the second week is devoted to free project work, with final project presentations at the end of the week.

Fee: 30 € (includes course, coffee breaks, access to course materials and resources, and course certificate)

The number of seats is limited, so pre-registration is required via the form below, until Monday, July 1st. On Tuesday, July 2nd, participants will be informed of acceptance or non-acceptance of registration. The selected participants will be requested to formalize their registration until Thursday, July 4th.

Registration: http://bit.ly/InteractionDesignSummerSchoolFEUP2013

Deadlines:
- Pre-registration (this form): until Monday, July 1st
- Communication of registration acceptance: Tuesday, July 2nd
- Registration confirmation and payment: until Thursday, July 4th

This Summer School is supported by the UT Austin|Portugal Program ( http://utaustinportugal.org/ ), and co-organized by GIG@FEUP ( http://fe.up.pt/gig ).

For enquiries please contact us at secdei@fe.up.pt with the subject "Interaction Design Summer School enquiry".

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