Interactive Media Design

careers

Here are a few of our graduates who have each gone on to their own 'dream jobs' (which are all quite different of course):

• Emily has founded her own web design agency
• Alison is studying Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art
• Alan is developing video games at Realtime Worlds
• Sam has a career in user research
• Kate is studying for a Masters in Design Ethnography
• Andrew is an interaction designer exploring more expressive communication aids for people who cannot speak
• Rob has a Masters in Design and has worked with Deutsche Telekom
• Shaun is working towards a PhD, researching the way that artists create with digital tools
• Jamie is developing an online service for charities with the help of a business incubator

One thing to note is that in industry and research, interaction design affords equal opportunities to women and men: Gillian Crampton Smith, founder of the world's first course at the Royal College of Art in the 1980s, is one of its pioneers:

"Interaction design is the design of the interaction between people and devices, systems or services. This interaction usually involves the "new technologies" of computing and communications. But interaction design remains a creative activity - like architectural, graphic or product design. And it concerns the social value and cultural meaning of what is designed, as well as its functional efficiency and aesthetic appeal." - Gillian Crampton Smith