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36-677: While not accredited, the curriculum and content are structured at the graduate level, targeting at both industry and academia in the fields of interaction design , design thinking , user experience , information architecture , and user interface design . The centerpieces of the Interaction-Design.org are their online design courses, their local chapters in more than 150 countries, and their peer reviewed Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction , which currently holds 40+ textbooks written by 100+ leading designers and professors as well as commentaries and HD video interviews shot around

72-407: A fifth dimension, behaviour. This dimension defines interactions: words are the element that users interact with. Visual representations are the elements of an interface that the user perceives; these may include but are not limited to "typography, diagrams, icons, and other graphics". This dimension defines the objects or space "with which or within which users interact". The time during which

108-402: A heavy focus on designing for technical stakeholders, interaction design is focused on meeting the needs and optimizing the experience of users, within relevant technical or business constraints. The term interaction design was coined by Bill Moggridge and Bill Verplank in the mid-1980s, but it took 10 years before the concept started to take hold. To Verplank, it was an adaptation of

144-443: A lightweight approach to analysis of a design quality, rather than an in-depth, detailed description. They provide a common vocabulary for discussing notation, user interface or programming language design. Dimensions provide high-level descriptions of the interface and how the user interacts with it: examples include consistency , error-proneness , hard mental operations , viscosity and premature commitment . These concepts aid

180-738: A redevelopment by Wright & Wright (budget £4.3m, floor area 2,500 sq m), the Sculpture Building opened in Battersea in January 2009. In 2018 the RCA was granted planning permission to redevelop the Sculpture building into a new Arts & Humanities building, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, with work planned for completion in late 2021. A masterplan was commissioned from Haworth Tompkins and phase one of their three-phase design

216-406: A way that both designers and stakeholders can understand, remember, and relate to. Personas use storytelling to engage users' social and emotional aspects, which helps designers to either visualize the best product behaviour or see why the recommended design is successful. The cognitive dimensions framework provides a vocabulary to evaluate and modify design solutions. Cognitive dimensions offer

252-864: Is for example, the use of dynamic icons, animations and sound to help communicate, creating a sense of interactivity. Interface aspects such as fonts, color palettes and graphical layouts can influence acceptance. Studies showed that affective aspects can affect perceptions of usability. Emotion and pleasure theories exist to explain interface responses. These include Don Norman 's emotional design model, Patrick Jordan's pleasure model and McCarthy and Wright's Technology as Experience framework. The concept of dimensions of interaction design were introduced in Moggridge's book Designing Interactions. Crampton Smith wrote that interaction design draws on four existing design languages, 1D, 2D, 3D, 4D. Kevin Silver later proposed

288-499: Is in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum ; there are two double MA/ MSc programmes with Imperial College London . In addition to formal qualifications the RCA also offers Summer school and Executive education courses throughout the year. English for academic purposes (EAP) courses are offered to applicants who need to improve their academic English ability to meet the college's entry requirements. In early 2019,

324-567: Is what characterizes IxD as a design field, as opposed to a science or engineering field. Interaction design borrows from a wide range of fields like psychology, human-computer interaction , information architecture , and user research to create designs that are tailored to the needs and preferences of users. This involves understanding the context in which the product will be used, identifying user goals and behaviors, and developing design solutions that are responsive to user needs and expectations. While disciplines such as software engineering have

360-566: The BBC Media Village and accommodating the School of Communication, Animation and Digital Direction and Communication Design in buildings designed by Allies and Morrison . The RCA offers a Graduate Diploma pre-masters conversion programme, MA , MRes , MPhil and PhD degrees in twenty-eight subject areas, divided into four schools: architecture, arts & humanities, communication, and design. The history of design programme

396-743: The Interactive Telecommunications Program founded at NYU in 1979 by Martin Elton and later headed by Red Burns. The first academic program officially named "Interaction Design" was established at Carnegie Mellon University in 1994, as a Master of Design in Interaction Design. At the outset, the program focused mainly on screen interfaces, before shifting to a greater emphasis on the "big picture" aspects of interaction—people, organizations, culture, service and system. In 1990, Gillian Crampton Smith founded

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432-554: The circular economy . In 2024, the RCA was placed first in the art and design subject area in the QS World University Rankings published by Quacquarelli Symonds for the tenth year in a row, with an overall score of 98.5/100. For the second consecutive year the RCA was also ranked first place in the History of Art category, which incorporates programmes teaching the history of design. In August 2015 it

468-810: The Computer-Related Design MA at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London, which in 2005 was renamed Design Interactions, headed by Anthony Dunne. In 2001, Crampton Smith helped found the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (IDII), a specialized institute in Olivetti's hometown in Northern Italy, dedicated solely to interaction design. In 2007, after IDII closed due to a lack of funding, some of

504-405: The RCA announced the launch of its new GenerationRCA programme. GenerationRCA -among other initiatives- will also "inject science disciplines into the mix of creative disciplines traditionally on offer." The new programmes will include Environmental Architecture and Digital Direction; with future programmes centred on nano and soft robotics, computer science, and machine learning, material science and

540-715: The annual interaction design conference, and the Interaction Awards. Royal College of Art The Royal College of Art ( RCA ) is a public research university in London , United Kingdom , with campuses in South Kensington , Battersea and White City . It is the only entirely postgraduate art and design university in the United Kingdom. It offers postgraduate degrees in art and design to students from over 60 countries. The RCA

576-669: The computer mouse's commercial introduction by Xerox. The Executive Board currently include Don Norman , Ken Friedman , Bill Buxton , Irene Au, Michael Arent, Daniel Rosenberg, Jonas Lowgren and Olof Schybergson. Interaction design Interaction design , often abbreviated as IxD , is "the practice of designing interactive digital products, environments, systems, and services." While interaction design has an interest in form (similar to other design fields), its main area of focus rests on behavior. Rather than analyzing how things are, interaction design synthesizes and imagines things as they could be. This element of interaction design

612-480: The computer science term user interface design for the industrial design profession. To Moggridge, it was an improvement over soft-face , which he had coined in 1984 to refer to the application of industrial design to products containing software. The earliest programs in design for interactive technologies were the Visible Language Workshop, started by Muriel Cooper at MIT in 1975, and

648-433: The concept of cognitive friction, which is when the interface of a design is complex and difficult to use, and behaves inconsistently and unexpectedly, possessing different modes. Alternatively, interfaces can be designed to serve the needs of the service/product provider. User needs may be poorly served by this approach. Usability answers the question "can someone use this interface?". Jakob Nielsen describes usability as

684-434: The creation of new designs from existing ones through design maneuvers that alter the design within a particular dimension. Designers must be aware of elements that influence user emotional responses. For instance, products must convey positive emotions while avoiding negative ones. Other important aspects include motivational, learning, creative, social and persuasive influences. One method that can help convey such aspects

720-595: The field of interaction design. Goal-oriented design (or Goal-Directed design) "is concerned with satisfying the needs and desires of the users of a product or service." Alan Cooper argues in The Inmates Are Running the Asylum that we need a new approach to solving interactive software-based problems. The problems with designing computer interfaces are fundamentally different from those that do not include software (e.g., hammers). Cooper introduces

756-434: The later 19th century it was primarily a teacher training college ; pupils during this period included George Clausen , Christopher Dresser , Luke Fildes , Kate Greenaway and Gertrude Jekyll . In September 1896 the school received the name Royal College of Art , and the emphasis of teaching there shifted to the practice of art and design. Teaching of graphic design , industrial design and product design began in

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792-652: The mid-twentieth century. The school expanded further in the 1960s, and in 1967 it received a royal charter which gave it the status of an independent university with the power to grant its own degrees. In July 2020, the Royal College of Art launched its first-ever online graduate exhibition, RCA2020 . The RCA today has three campuses located in South Kensington , Battersea and White City . The Darwin Building in Kensington Gore , South Kensington,

828-715: The people originally involved with IDII set up the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID), in Denmark. After Ivrea, Crampton Smith and Philip Tabor added the Interaction Design (IxD) track in the Visual and Multimedia Communication at the University of Venice , Italy. In 1998, the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research founded The Interactive Institute —a Swedish research institute in

864-405: The quality attribute that describes how usable the interface is. Shneiderman proposes principles for designing more usable interfaces called "Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design" —which are well-known heuristics for creating usable systems. Personas are archetypes that describe the various goals and observed behaviour patterns among users. A persona encapsulates critical behavioural data in

900-550: The rector at the time the building was commissioned. Although there was modest development into the mews behind the Darwin Building, the restricted site meant further expansion had to be in another part of London. In 1991 the sculpture department moved to a converted factory in Battersea . In the early 2000s the college conceived a substantial extension on the site, with a minibus service linking it to Kensington. After

936-456: The rising cost of education - with weekly events on university campuses. Financial sponsors include the German software company SAP . Authors include Harvard professor Clayton Christensen and New York Times bestselling author, Robert Spence who invented the "magnifying glass" visualization that is familiar to anyone with an iPhone or iMac, and Stu Card who performed the research that led to

972-536: The suffragette movement Sylvia Pankhurst , the musician Ian Dury , sound artist Janek Schaefer , and the actor Alan Rickman . The artist and graduate Gerald Holtom designed the CND symbol in 1958, which has become a nearly universal peace symbol . The Royal College of Art Society amalgamated with OSARCA (the Old Students Association of the RCA 1912) for the benefit of graduates and associates of

1008-503: The third-highest rating in the art and design subject area; over all subject areas only about fifty institutions received a higher rating. The Royal College of Art and its predecessor schools have numerous notable alumni. Among those who studied in the RCA predecessor bodies in the nineteenth century were Sir George Clausen , Christopher Dresser , Sir Luke Fildes , Kate Greenaway , Gertrude Jekyll and Edwin Lutyens . Alumni from

1044-633: The twentieth and twenty-first centuries include the sculptors Jean Gibson , Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore , painters Frank Auerbach , Sir Peter Blake , Frank Bowling , David Hockney , Bridget Riley , Gavin Turk and Charles Tunnicliffe , artists Jake and Dinos Chapman , Tracey Emin and R. B. Kitaj , fashion designers Ossie Clark and Zandra Rhodes , industrial designers James Dyson , and David Mellor , film directors Tony and Ridley Scott , writer Travis Jeppesen , designers Thomas Heatherwick and architect Sir David Adjaye , prominent member of

1080-422: The user interacts with the interface. An example of this includes "content that changes over time such as sound, video or animation". Behavior defines how users respond to the interface. Users may have different reactions in this interface. The Interaction Design Association was created in 2003 to serve the community. The organization has over 80,000 members and more than 173 local groups. IxDA hosts Interaction

1116-557: The world. The platform features professional and academic textbooks, online courses, video lectures, local chapters in more than 150 countries, and a comprehensive bibliography of the most authoritative publications within the design of interactive technology. In June 2013, the Interaction Design Foundation launched a 4 year 35,000 mile bike tour, named "Share the Knowledge Tour", to raise awareness of

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1152-575: Was completed 1960–1963. It is a short distance from the RCA's home 1896–1967 in the Henry Cole Building , now part of the V&;A Museum . The Darwin Building was designed by a team of RCA staff members, H. T. Cadbury-Brown , Hugh Casson and Robert Goodden, and since 2001 has been a Grade II listed building . It is named after painter Sir Robert Vere Darwin , known as Robin Darwin, who was

1188-553: Was completed with the opening of the Sackler Building on 19 November 2009, to house the painting department. Its name commemorates a major gift by The Dr Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation . The Dyson Building, named in honour of James Dyson , whose charity donated £5m towards the £21m cost, was opened on 24 September 2012. It houses printmaking and photography , and contains an innovation wing where start-up designers can launch their businesses. The Woo Building

1224-808: Was founded in Somerset House in 1837 as the Government School of Design or Metropolitan School of Design . Richard Burchett became head of the school in 1852. In 1853 it was expanded and moved to Marlborough House , and then, in 1853 or 1857, to South Kensington , on the same site as the South Kensington Museum . It was renamed the Normal Training School of Art in 1857 and the National Art Training School in 1863. During

1260-469: Was opened on 30 September 2015, completing the Battersea project. It is named in honour of Sir Po-Shing and Lady Helen Woo , who have funded scholarships at the RCA since the 1990s. It accommodates the Ceramics & Glass and Jewellery & Metal programmes. The building's anodised aluminium gates were designed by alumnus Max Lamb . In 2017 RCA White City became the third RCA campus, co-located with

1296-509: Was ranked first on a list of master's courses in fashion by Business of Fashion, a fashion website. In April 2011 the RCA was ranked first on a list of UK graduate art schools compiled by Modern Painters magazine from a survey of professionals in the art world. In the Research Assessment Exercise of December 2008, 40% of the research output of the school received the highest (4* or "world-leading") assessment,

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