The Interaction12 program was announced last week, and I’m very excited to say that my workshop with Dave Malouf has made the cut! Dave and I have been looking for a way to collaborate for a long time, and this is the perfect format for us to work together and share some collective knowledge with the larger community.

We will be teaching a full day workshop outlining the core elements of design school curriculum and practice. Dave and I each come at this from different perspectives. Dave didn’t go to design school, he has learned on the job and by participating in our great community. He became so engaged in interaction design and thinking about design that he has now become an interaction design professor at SCAD, which gives him an amazing perspective on design education. On the other hand, I attended art and design school and have a degree in New Media Art. My education wasn’t specifically around interaction design, but the foundation taught in art school is core to any design practice. In the end, we’ve both had kind of round about ways of becoming interaction designers and feel that there is something special about the design school experience.

In our workshop we’ll attempt to give attendees a taste of what it’s like being a design student, at the same time covering a lot of the foundational elements that practitioners often miss when they get into the field through other routes. If you’re planning to attend Interaction12 (and you should be!) we’d love to see you at our workshop.

What you missed by skipping design school at Interaction12 Dublin, February 1 – 4, 2012.