When Steven Heller first approached me about starting a graduate industrial-design program at SVA, my response was, “I don’t know if it would be an ID department, exactly, but it would certainly involve artifacts, their purpose, making, sustainability…” And he said, “Great! Write it up.” But the challenge was to figure out what the landscape for artifacts will be in the year 2014—when we’d graduate the first class. An interaction-design program a few years ago would have principally been about the Web, for example; now it’s a completely different landscape: iPhones, apps, tablets, a mobile revolution. (via Designing the Future | Metropolis Magazine
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