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Interactive Design

Category: Media and Communication

Program Description

Ready to design experiences that live on screens everywhere? Join our Interactive Design program and turn creativity into a career building engaging digital experiences for the web, apps, games, and emerging media.

This program prepares you to create user-centered digital content with a strong focus on user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) design. You’ll learn to analyze end-user needs, apply design principles, color theory, and typography, and produce interactive media such as websites, prototypes, animations, videos, and interactive content. Hands-on training with industry-standard tools and production workflows ensures you gain real-world skills used by interactive designers and media producers.

Through project-based learning, you’ll strengthen your written, verbal, and visual communication skills while working independently and as part of a creative production team. You’ll develop professional media solutions for clients, understand legal and ethical standards, and graduate prepared to collaborate, problem-solve, and contribute effectively in fast-paced digital environments.

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Overview

Workforce services for eligible adults are available through this program authorized by Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). Click for more info!

Multi-term Registration Available!

Class Time: Day and Evening
Semester: Fall Semester or Spring Semester
Campus: Brooklyn Park Campus

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Skills Required

Students must demonstrate computer proficiency by passing the Macintosh or Windows evaluation before enrolling in program technical courses.

Wages/Outlook/Advancement

Wage and Job Outlook information for this program are available at Minnesota Department of Employment & Economic Development (DEED).

Interactive Designers with good artistic design skills are in high demand by media producers, film and animation companies, production houses, government agencies, printing houses, ad agencies, educational institutions and businesses who are engaged in local and global communications with outside customers or company employees.

Accreditation and Affiliations

Hennepin Tech is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. In 2003, Hennepin Tech became a member of the HLC Academic Quality Improvement Program.

Accreditation by the Higher Learning Commission provides assurance to the public, in particular to prospective students, that an organization has been found to meet the agency's clearly stated requirements and criteria and that there are reasonable grounds for believing that it will continue to meet them.

Our students have collaborated with the following:

Buffalo Wild Wings
Minnesota Department of Corrections
The Anoka County Historical Society
CenterPoint Energy
The University of Minnesota Raptor Center
Pillsbury
Achieve Services Inc.
Soulvation musical group
Orchard House Musical group
Michael Shynes musical artist
Hydro Engineering
The Friends of Wasioja
Can-Do Canines
Maple Grove DARE Program
KARE 11
Opportunity Partners
Rotary Club of Fridley
North Memorial Hospital

Articulations

Humboldt High School
Wayzata High School

Industry Partners

The Advisory Board is composed of members representing a diverse cross-section of industry. Board members work for agencies, post-production houses, corporations, e-Learning companies, television stations, and more.