Interaction Design

Overview

Designing the future through interaction, experience and emerging technologies.

Are you excited to create meaningful digital experiences? Interaction Design at ECU explores UX design, game design, creative coding and sound.

Whether designing apps, services, or immersive experiences, you’ll create innovative solutions that connect people and shape the future of technology.

A student wearing a VR headset and holding controllers interacts with a virtual environment, while three other students stand at a podium in the background giving a presentation. A projection screen glows behind them.

What You’ll Learn

Interactivity is everywhere—from apps and websites to physical devices, games and service systems. You’ll gain hands-on experience designing digital and tangible media through sketching, prototyping and testing.

This interdisciplinary program blends technical skills, critical inquiry and human-centred research while allowing you to take courses in Communication Design, Industrial Design, Animation and New Media + Sound Art.

Led by expert practitioners, this program prepares you to navigate the evolving fields of UX, interaction design and emerging technologies.

Program Highlights

Develop expertise in UX design, game design, information architecture and creative coding
Work with hybrid technologies, from pen and paper to virtual reality
Explore electives in animation, communication design and new media
Graduate with a strong portfolio, ready for careers or graduate studies

A performer operates sound equipment in front of a large projection of colorful, glitch-like digital graphics, while several students sit on mats on the floor watching.

A group of healthcare workers in scrubs and face masks gather around a table with a colorful floor plan. A woman in the center, wearing a grey sweater, leans forward and points at the map while engaging others in discussion. The scene suggests teamwork and problem-solving in a hospital setting.

A collage of six renderings of a modern exhibition space titled “AIDEN REID.” The gallery features minimalist concrete walls, large digital and text-based projections, and transparent circular display structures. Visitors walk through the space, interact with installations, and view large-scale wall art, digital screens, and immersive projections on the floor and walls. The environment blends physical and virtual elements in a futuristic museum setting.

Information Oasis, by ECU student Tianxin Zhao. This is an immersive experimental space designed to transport you to the year 2044, allowing you to experience the visual representation of information overload and technopoly in the future digital age. In this space, you will wear a VR headset and enter an information-overloaded city where you must rely on discerning the truth of information to access the Information Oasis.

Person wearing headphones using a pen tablet to draw storyboards on a screen, with a keyboard, water bottle, and small monitor in the background.

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