The Master in Interaction Design aims to train professionals who aspire to be tomorrow’s digital leaders equipped with the collaborative, critical thinking and technical skills required to react, adapt and leverage the impacts of digital transformation and understand how the digital can be harnessed for strategic design.
The Master provides an environment of creativity, design and technological innovation by focusing on projects through a future lens. It provides students with the skillset and mindset to challenge the status quo and produce well-rounded designers who can work across disciplinary, cultural and geographical boundaries to design solutions addressing future individual, societal and business needs by nurturing curiosity, experimentation, technical skills, and critical thinking, as well as empathic, collaborative skills.
Specializations
UX Design
The UX Design Module trains future creators of the digital economy, people capable of providing solutions to revolutionize user experience and tomorrow’s communication. Thanks to the collaboration of a partner, the program is driven by experimentation and innovation alongside solid training in critical design and new business models.
UI Design
The UI Design Module is focused on the development of the layout and the fine detail of how users interact with a product. With the collaboration of a partner, students working in multidisciplinary teams will solve the challenge given.
Creative Coding
The Creative Coding module aims to train future digital economy professionals, versatile individuals with knowledge of designing experiences, mastery of the most versatile programming languages and great entrepreneurial skills.
One of the goals of the module is to train professionals who are able to communicate between disciplines, using technologies to their advantage rather than against.
Under the umbrella of a partner, students create a portfolio based on real briefs, working in multidisciplinary teams and developing technological applications from initial idea to the final product.
Coordinator
Jordi Planas
Designer of interactive experiences combining technology and creativity, digital art and advertising. He is the founder of the interactive installation company Vimod Studio, which together with advertising agencies like Ogilvy or S, C, P, F, etc. devises and produces technological events for brands such as Garmin, Zurich or Lenovo at the Mobile World Congress, among other events.
A fan of experimental electronic music, maker culture, DIY and digital fabrication, he is a creative programmer of Arduino, Processing, C++, Internet of Things and robotics. He teaches classes and seminars in several educational programs (Art School of the Tarragona Provincial Council, Higher Level Course in Games and Interactive Environments at IED). He holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona and a Master in Digital Art from Pompeu Fabra University.
Eduardo de Felipe
Independent designer and creative consultant with 20 years of experience supporting some of the best world-class clients, brands, and products through digital innovation and human-centered, design-led creativity.
He and David Boleas founded Pirata, one of London’s most innovative digital production studios and a regular player at the top table of digital production.
In 2016, after nearly 15 years of living and working in London, he moved to Barcelona, where he continues working globally with a focus on the European market.
