Master of Interaction Design and Electronic Arts
The MIDEA program enables you to design for the future, using the emergent technologies of today. Technology is becoming closely interwoven into everyday life. How we create and design these interactions is crucial to their success and the positive impact they have on our lives. This understanding forms the core of the program’s design philosophy: technology that is designed to delight its users.
We aim to infuse the latest technological innovation with a human-centred design thinking to solve complex problems. The program promotes a creative and critical approach, within the framework of research-driven interaction design and user experience methodologies. The result is an understanding of how to design interactive products, services and systems that will have lasting cultural and commercial importance.
In the Graduate Certificate, students will develop the essential industry knowledge and skills for working as an interaction or user experience designer, at ease with web and mobile applications. Once you have these core skills in human-centred design thinking, web/mobile interface design and creative coding, you are trained to analyse and evaluate their application in a range of design contexts. This evaluative approach is what enables our students to create meaningful interactive experiences that will become ubiquitous parts of our everyday life.
In the Graduate Diploma, students will engage in design studio projects to extend these skills, both conceptually and technically. We offer a studio-based teaching environment in which students work individually or in teams to creatively solve design challenges. You will learn to design across multiple platforms and scales - from natural, tangible and wearable user interfaces to interactive architecture, creative robotics and urban informatics. Your ideas may even become the basis of prototype products, patents or start-up services.
The Masters program culminates in a capstone research project, industry internship or graduation design project. This is where you can dive deep into a topic of your interest, collaborate on a design research project with one of our academic researchers, or gain valuable industry experience. The School draws on industry and alumni contacts to enable opportunities to build your professional network. These factors combine to position you as a well-connected creative industry specialist with expertise across the strategic, creative and technical domains.
The Masters program with a specialisation in Audio and Acoustics, or Illumination Design will further differentiate your skill set and enable you to work in the emerging area of interactive sound and lighting in entertainment, buildings and public space.
Course rules
Master of Interaction Design and Electronic Arts
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Course Resolutions
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Code |
Course title |
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GCINDEAR-01 |
Graduate Certificate in Interaction Design and Electronic Arts |
GNINDEAR-01 |
Graduate Diploma in Interaction Design and Electronic Arts |
MAINDEAR-01 |
Master of Interaction Design and Electronic Arts (72cp) |
MAINDEAR-02 |
Master of Interaction Design and Electronic Arts (96cp) |