{"id":283,"date":"2006-09-07T12:38:35","date_gmt":"2006-09-07T11:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.leapfrog.nl\/archives\/2006\/09\/07\/where-are-the-good-european-ixd-schools\/"},"modified":"2008-07-22T21:37:59","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T19:37:59","slug":"where-are-the-good-european-ixd-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/07\/where-are-the-good-european-ixd-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Where are the good European IxD schools?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Saffer of Adaptive Path wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/adaptivepath.com\/publications\/essays\/archives\/000656.php\">an introductory piece for budding interaction designers<\/a>. Five years ago, Robert Reimann of Cooper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cooper.com\/newsletters\/2001_06\/so_you_want_to_be_an_interaction_designer.htm\">did the same<\/a>. Both are nice overviews for novices and especially the parts on a designer\u2019s temperament are entertaining to read. <\/p>\n<p>Saffer fails to mention any good <acronym title=\"Interaction Design\">IxD<\/acronym> schools outside of the US and UK. Which is a shame for all of us European designers. Reimann mentioned Ivrea\u2019s now defunct IxD institute.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d like to start by pointing to my courageous little country\u2019s Utrecht School of Arts, which has been <a href=\"http:\/\/english.hku.nl\/hku\/show\/id=59229\">teaching IxD<\/a> for 15 years now (!) and today offers both <acronym title=\"Bachelor of Arts\">BA<\/acronym> and <acronym title=\"Master of Arts\">MA<\/acronym> programs. They\u2019ve recently branched off into <a href=\"http:\/\/english.hku.nl\/hku\/show\/id=59450\">game design<\/a>, which has been quite successful.<\/p>\n<p>Full disclosure: I was a student at the same school from 1998 \u2013 2001 (BA IxD, MA Game Design) and am now teaching a course in <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.leapfrog.nl\/archives\/2006\/06\/30\/mobile-gaming-directions\/\">mobile game design<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Any other good IxD schools in Europe that you know of?<\/p>\n<p><ins datetime=\"2006-09-08T09:01:24+00:00\">\nUpdate: discussions on Saffer&#8217;s post on the IxDA&#8217;s maling list <a href=\"http:\/\/listserver.dreamhost.com\/pipermail\/discuss-interactiondesigners.com\/2006-September\/011504.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/listserver.dreamhost.com\/pipermail\/discuss-interactiondesigners.com\/2006-September\/011531.html\">here<\/a>; overview of IxD education (mostly in the US) <a href=\"http:\/\/resources.ixda.org\/archive\/2005\/05\/graduate-programs-in-interaction-design\/\">here<\/a>.<\/ins><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Saffer of Adaptive Path wrote an introductory piece for budding interaction designers. Five years ago, Robert Reimann of Cooper did the same. Both are nice overviews for novices and especially the parts on a designer\u2019s temperament are entertaining to read. Saffer fails to mention any good IxD schools outside of the US and UK. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/07\/where-are-the-good-european-ixd-schools\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Where are the good European IxD schools?<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[625],"tags":[215,218,11,10,214,217,216],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-education","tag-europe","tag-interaction-design","tag-ixd","tag-schools","tag-uk","tag-us"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}