Industrial and Interaction Design, BID

Syracuse University

The industrial and interaction design program (IID) prepares you to embrace the complex challenges of creating innovative products, systems, and services in the 21st century. You develop skills and learn to address contemporary problems through creative and critical thinking guided by leading scholars and design practitioners.Studio courses introduce you to diverse areas of practice within industrial and interaction design today. Through project-based learning (PBL), you experience industry-standard tools, processes, and methods. You explore emerging technologies and apply best practices to create design solutions that respond to the needs of people and planet.You enhance your IID studies with a range of elective studio and academic courses and minors from across Syracuse University. In spring of your fourth year, you may apply to live and study in London or Florence with SU Abroad. Through the University’s Blackstone LaunchPad, you gain entrepreneurial skills and partner with students in other disciplines to develop, pitch, and launch your own seed-funded startup companies.The program culminates in a year-long independent thesis project and exhibition. You emerge from the program ready to address contemporary global concerns and assume product design, user experience design, design research, and product development roles at world-leading enterprises and consultancies.

College of Visual and Performing Arts