The requirements, reviews, and curriculum for CCA's master's-level program in Interaction Design are designed such that graduating students successfully achieve the following program learning outcomes:

IxD students will understand and be able to craft state-of-the-art interactive systems, products, services, user flows and multi-­touchpoint experiences. Additionally they will be able to design interactions beyond screens at the intersection of machine and human.

IxD students will employ contemporary visual design skills to communicate their work and they will employ coding and electronics to demonstrate their work.

IxD students will employ human-­centered process and collaboration skills including user research (quantitative and qualitative), brainstorming, actionable knowledge synthesis, and entrepreneurship in order to create innovative and effective user experiences by working individually and in teams.

Students will have process, convening, and execution skills to responsibly engage communities including vulnerable populations, uncover needs, uncover root causes to system challenges and develop responses in an agile fashion.

IxD students will create portfolios of their work including case studies and examples of their development and thinking processes. They will be able to present and defend design decisions through effective communication techniques. They will also be prepared to design and respond to the ethical and sustainable concerns encountered by professional interaction designers.

Students will exhibit leadership through self-reflection, effective communication, organizational understanding and design strategy to be able to lead people through complex efforts exhibiting personal, rather than positional, leadership.