INTERACTIVE DESIGN
Interactive Design (UX) focuses on designing how people interact with digital products, media, and interactive environments. It includes creating experiences across web and mobile platforms, games and immersive media, smart and connected devices, and emerging technologies such as AI and AR/VR. Designers shape these experiences through interaction, motion, and responsive design — crafting how users move, respond, and engage within digital spaces.
UX often involves building prototypes, experimenting with ideas, and shaping how users move through and experience digital spaces. Designers in this field work at the intersection of creativity, technology, and human behavior, continuously exploring new tools and emerging technologies in their creative process.
SELECTED WORKS FROM INTERACTIVE DESIGN
DSGN M478 Agile Development Process 2025
Students collaboratively designed and developed CTRL+Z, a department-centered website using Agile methods, iterating through sprints to build an interactive hub for student work, events, resources, and community engagement.
Explore the live interactive website built by students using Framer →
DSGN M474 Interactive Design 3
Trader Joe’s Interactive Pop-Up Shop 2025
Students created an interactive exhibition based on a faculty-authored geographic atlas, designing multiple experiences—including touchscreens, AR guides, games, VR museum spaces, and motion-based storytelling—to help audiences explore and understand the book’s content in immersive ways.
Topographic 2024
Students created an interactive exhibition based on a faculty-authored geographic atlas, designing multiple experiences—including touchscreens, AR guides, games, VR museum spaces, and motion-based storytelling—to help audiences explore and understand the book’s content in immersive ways.
DSGN M372 Human-Centered Design
Human Centered Interactive Education 2024
Students applied the human-centered design process to develop interactive educational tools that support learning outcomes for Holy Name of Jesus elementary students through research, testing, and iterative design.
Explore the Interactive Prototype - Click to interact and explore.
Human Centered Design - AR project - UX Museum 2023
Human Centered Design - AR project - AR Wall 2023
Interactive 1 - Website Redesign 2023
Interactive 1 - Mobile App Design 2022
Emma Mazzuca . Interactive Design . 2017
Laura Harkness + Bobbie Green . Interactive Design . 2017
Nick Pitcher . Interactive Design . 2017
Abbey Furlow . Web Design . 2017
Wren Oversech . Interactive Design . 2016
Nick Pitcher . Web Design . 2016