1. Degree of Bachelor or equivalent in subjects relevant for interaction design. Examples of relevant subjects include, but are not limited to: computer science,

informatics, information systems, human-computer interaction, new media arts,

fine arts, design (industrial, product, graphic, interaction), communication studies,

media studies and cognitive science.

2. Approval of the following submitted material: 2 x work samples of previous

relevant work and an individual response to the application assignment, available

on the Malmö University web site.

3. General eligibility + the equivalent of English course B in Swedish higher

secondary school.

The course aims to develop and enhance the student’s ability to perform and reflect on multi-disciplinary collaboration and designerly ways in interaction design.

The course serves as an emblematic primer to the programme at large with regards to design work, approaches, and processes.

The course has dual sets of learning outcomes:

Repertoire and theory

1. Relating choices of methods and approaches to the diversity of tasks for an interaction design team.

2. Building a repertoire of interaction design elements (e.g. behaviour, attributes, adaptivity etc.) and discern how interaction designs speak into salient concerns within Interaction design.

3. Constructively and reflectively collaborate throughout an interaction design process in teams of diverse backgrounds.

4. Performing design processes and therein make relevant use of key interaction design ways, techniques and methods.

Reflection and criticism

5. Reflect on interaction designers’ roles and approaches in multidisciplinary collaboration and on designerly ways in interaction design.

6. Apply judgements of generative value in developing designs and in design critique of the work of others.

In dialogue with design studio-work, the course entails introductory lectures, reflective seminars/workshops, as well as group and individual assignments. The students’ work is also supported by introductions to related facilities.

Collaboration, multi-disciplinarity and designerly ways are treated as first-order subjects, which means that they are studied, problematized, taught, and reflected upon in and through interaction design practice. Thus, the main activity is studio design practice performed in diverse teams. Such design practice forms the practical basis for experimentation with and reflection on multidisciplinary collaboration and designerly ways.

In their design practice, the students draw on salient themes and topics from key fields of interaction design, as well as they try-out methods and ways suitable for the task at hand – such as informal techniques for understanding use situations, synthesis & creative reframing, interaction ideation & sketching, and user-oriented evaluation. The students’ design practice also serve as basis for reflections on design process criteria.

Learning outcomes pertaining to multidisciplinary collaboration are assessed through individual assignments.

Here, learning outcomes 1, 3 and 5 are assessed.

The other main assessment activity is oral group examination of the design-studio variety known as studio crits. Here, learning outcomes 2, 4, and 6 are assessed.

Bardzell & Bardzell (2015): Humanistic HCI. Synthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics, Morgan and Claypool

Buxton, W (2007): Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design,Elsevier/Morgan Kaufman

Complemented with online resources such as http://www.interaction-design.org/

The University provides students who participate in or who have completed a course with the opportunity to make known their experiences and viewpoints with regards to

the course by completing a course evaluation administered by the University. The University will compile and summarize the results of course evaluations as well as informing participants of the results and any decisions relating to measures initiated in response to the course evaluations. The results will be made available to the students (HF 1:14).