Interaction Design

Interaction design is the discipline concerned with creating meaningful connections between people and digital systems, interfaces, and environments. It asks how technology can be designed so that it is not merely functional but genuinely engaging, intuitive, and expressive, and it treats digital technology not simply as a tool but as a creative medium in its own right. The field sits at the intersection of design, art, computer science, and human behaviour, and its practitioners need fluency across all of these domains.

At the Glasgow School of Art this four-year full-time programme explores the use of digital technology as a material in creative practice. You will work with computers, cameras, sensors, lights, motors, projectors, and networks, learning to understand and speak to machines through creative coding and to use this capability to generate engaging interactive digital media across a range of platforms and contexts. The programme frames technology within a creative and critical context, ensuring that your practical and technical skills are grounded in the ability to articulate and justify your creative decisions.

Glasgow School of Art's distinctive approach combines the rigour of art school training with genuine technical education, producing graduates who can move fluently between the studio and the screen, the physical and the digital. The programme engages with new media art and design practice, encouraging you to explore what interaction design can do at the boundaries of current practice.

Graduates move into careers in UX and interaction design, digital product design, creative technology, game design, installation art, new media art, immersive experience design, and the broader field of creative computing. Many also go on to postgraduate study in design, interaction design, or creative technology, and some develop independent creative practices at the intersection of art and technology.