What is CMU interaction design learning? What is interaction design for you? What do you understand about interaction design? Today, I will give you a deep insight into what the famous Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) interaction design major is learning.

　　 Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

In 2023, Carnegie Mellon University ranked 22nd in the US News ranking of American universities.

CMU Interaction Design Graduate

The introduction of CMU interaction design specialty is that it focuses on the interaction between people and the relationship between people and the designed world and nature. It involves product semantics, brand experience, multimedia, intelligent devices, urban roads, large-scale information systems and so on.

Designers can work in healthcare, retail, telecommunications, transportation systems, food systems, environmental monitoring and other fields. These new fields have emerged in the past decade and provided a large number of new market opportunities for designers. The school's projects and courses in these fields often cooperate with enterprises and community/non-profit customers.

　　 CMU's professional framework of interaction design is divided into three directions: Design For Service design, Design For Social Innovation social innovation design, and Transition Design transition design.

　　 01.Design For Service

　　“Design for service represents design within existing paradigms and systems in which moderate positive change can be achieved.”

In the modern society, designers need to have a better way to manage, predict and design users' feelings for products and services, experience of using products and services, and reputation after use, which may be the meaning and purpose of interaction design.

stay At the graduate stage, the service design direction of CMU focuses on studio projects, and there will also be seminar and various optional courses.

CMU has the following explanation for service design: The solution of service design is based on the observation and interpretation of user behavior and needs in a specific environment. This type of observation and analysis is achieved by designing research and proposing solutions, visualizing service blueprints, models, maps and solutions. The service design solution aims to provide profit and welfare for service providers and provide useful and ideal services for users.

　　 02.Design For Social Innovation

Social innovative design refers to the design of new products, services, processes and policies that more effectively meet social needs than existing solutions. Social innovative solutions often use or amplify existing and available resources.

　　 In the graduate stage, CMU students will participate in a series of cooperation projects related to social organizations, governments and welfare institutions, also based on studios and research projects.

　　 Design For Social Innovation is a project that emphasizes the spirit of collaboration and cooperation. Students will be asked to design products that can really meet user needs from the perspective of user needs. From the perspective of mining product functions, old products are endowed with new functions and new uses. From the perspective of cost design, try new materials, new methods and technologies to reduce product costs and improve product quality.

　　 03.Transition Design

"Transition" in Transition Design means the transition from a traditional society to a sustainable future. The work undertaken by the designer is similar to the transitional design in service design and social innovation. Its goal is to establish a mutually supportive community system and a global network for sharing and exchanging knowledge, ideas, skills, technologies, cultures and resources.

In the process of learning Transition Design, students will study the dynamics of complex systems, the design of application tools and processes, etc. So that students' visual cognitive ability, ideation ability, design process and service to products can be improved.

　　 Today's summary

Thanks to the development of the Internet, especially in the era of experience economy, users' perception of experience is becoming more and more obvious, the industry's requirements for user experience are becoming more and more specific and diversified, and the dependence on interaction design is becoming stronger and stronger, so the proportion of interaction designers undertaking design leaders is gradually increasing, Interaction designers with user experience thinking are more and more likely to become product leaders and excellent entrepreneurs.

I wonder if you have noticed the two cute little action pictures at the beginning and the end of the article. When the interaction is no longer limited to the screen, what special experience do you think it will bring to users?

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