IXDA 2010 GLOBAL STUDENT COMPETITION

EXCELLENCE IN INTERACTION DESIGN

What is the competition?

The Interaction Design Association (IxDA) is committed to supporting the global community of practice for those practicing interaction design (IxD) regardless of specific roles in their day-to-day lives. As the discipline of IxD matures, the need for closer ties to design education programs that include the discipline of IxD intensifies. Every year the Interaction conference is hosted by an educational institution with strong commitments towards creating tomorrow’s designers with a strong base in IxD. This year we want to extend this link with education by running our first Global Student Competition.

This year’s theme is “Excellence in Interaction Design”

The competition is open to any individual student or recent graduate (within 1 yr.) who have completed a project they feel exemplifies interaction design excellence.

Appropriate submissions can be practical or conceptual so long as they fit this theme of interaction design excellence. Work that is primarily about market research or technological feasibility is not appropriate for submission to this competition.

Who can enter?

Any individual student and recent graduate (within 1 yr of diploma conferment) from relevant undergraduate and graduate programs regardless of program type or location around the world. Whether you are in a program for HCI, Industrial Design, Information Architecture, Computer Science, Interactive Design, Graphic Design, Experience Design, Communication Design, Instructional Design, Fashion Design, Interior Design, Exhibition Design, Architecture, Jewellery, and of course IxD.

When do I need to have my entry ready?

The Competition happens in two stages:

STAGE 1: electronic submission of a process book

Submissions for stage 1 will be accepted between 23-NOV and 30-NOV (11:59pm US/Pacific Standard Time). Get more information on Stage 1.

STAGE 2: poster review, design challenge and presentation at the IxDA conference in Savannah Georgia.

5 finalists will be chosen from the initial submissions & announced 15-December-2009. Each finalist will win a scholarship to Interaction 10 | Savannah hosted by the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD). While in Savannah, finalists will compete through 3 more stages of the competition to find a winner: Poster review, 24-hour challenge, and final presentation. Get more information on stage 2.

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Interaction South America 09

Interaction South America 09 acontece em São Paulo dias 26, 27 e 28 de novembro

São Paulo é a cidade que será sede da primeira conferência na América Latina do Interaction Design Association (IxDA), que contará com a presença de convidados internacionais entre os palestrantes. O evento, que acontece dias 26, 27 e 28 de novembro, de 8 às 20 horas, na Universidade Anhembi Morumbi, pretende apresentar e discutir as principais linhas de pesquisa na área do design de interação.

O Interaction South America 09 também é uma excelente oportunidade para incentivar o network entre profissionais da comunidade, apresentando e promovendo a disciplina nos mais variados círculos de conhecimento: design, ciências da computação, arquitetura, entre outros.

A programação do Interaction South América ´09 conta com apresentações de três tipos de submissão de trabalhos: artigos científicos e prático-experimentais; trabalhos multimídia performáticos e; cases de mercado, juntamente com palestras de convidados nacionais e internacionais, workshops, mesa redonda e a presença dos mais renomados nomes da academia. Read the rest of this entry »