{"id":887,"date":"2008-07-08T15:42:27","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T22:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/08\/onwards-and-forward\/"},"modified":"2008-07-08T15:42:27","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T22:42:27","slug":"onwards-and-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/onwards-and-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Onwards and forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I find myself in the unlikely position of having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/26\/feeling-left-out\/\">bitched<\/a> about an event I got invited to this year.<\/p>\n<p>Since that post, I can say that the state of interaction design conferences and education has dramatically improved with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thishappened.org\">This happened<\/a> in London and <a href=\"http:\/\/interaction08.ixda.org\/\">IxDA<\/a> in the US. Hopefully this is  a &#8220;future trend&#8221; :) as the schools on the subject are also starting to mushroom:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The Institute for Information Technology at Thames Valley University is opening a <a href=\"http:\/\/courses.tvu.ac.uk\/CourseDetails.aspx?CourseInstanceID=27257&#038;SearchType=bas&#038;SearchText=computing%20interaction%20design&#038;folder=ALL&#038;rptindex=1&#038;isSorted=0&#038;img=img&#038;sortname=null&#038;count=0&#038;PageSize=10\">MSc in Computing Interaction Design<\/a> in the UK in January 2009.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Former Ivreans are starting <a href=\"http:\/\/ciid.dk\/\">Copenhagen Insitute for Interaction design<\/a> as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interaction-venice.com\/\">Interaction design program<\/a> in Venice<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Even Carnegie Mellon is <strike>getting on board <\/strike>keeping up the good work with a <a href=\"http:\/\/code.arc.cmu.edu\/mTID\/master_of_tangible_interaction_design.html\">Masters in Tangible Interaction design<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Le roi est mort, vive le roi!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I find myself in the unlikely position of having bitched about an event I got invited to this year. Since that post, I can say that the state of interaction design conferences and education has dramatically improved with This happened in London and IxDA in the US. Hopefully this is a &#8220;future trend&#8221; :)&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/onwards-and-forward\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Onwards and forward<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-interaction-design","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-ej","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}