MFA Interaction Design

Interaction design creates opportunities to shape and guide behavior. It opens possibilities for experiences and exchanges not possible before. At the MFA Interaction Design program, students learn to design products, services and experiences shaped by the pressing needs of people and the planet we share. They explore the edges and potentialities of new technologies towards a more inclusive and accessible world.

With an increase in design’s possibility for influence, designers are negotiating a whole new set of opportunities.

The Interaction Design program at SVA is a response to these opportunities for interaction. Designers find themselves influencing the future of products and services, education, journalism, health care, banking, cities and more.

Where once we were considering interfaces and interactions on screens, we’re now considering how these expressions tie into bigger systems. As data and generative AI are more abundantly available and designers are informed by new formal and informal mechanisms for connecting, we are aware we are part of something bigger.

In our two-year graduate program, students learn the skills, methods, and mindsets of interaction design in order to seed healthier and more inclusive futures. Join our community of designers, artists, entrepreneurs, technologists, and more — find your future practice at MFA IxD.