Interface Design

The computerisation of our product environment presents all designers involved in product development with a new challenge: e.g. the design of intuitive software and hardware as a functional-aesthetic unit as well as the design of pure software applications; many products have already been "dematerialised", i.e. they consist essentially of audio-visual information.

Interface design is seen as a partner discipline for construction and technical design within the study of industrial design and deals with the design of the operating systems of interactive (software) systems and series of technical products from a range of consumer and investment goods.

The interdisciplinary structure of the Centre for Media produces important synergy effects related to the fields of digital and interactive media in the study of communication design. This should be actively used.

Kiel’s Interface Design courses deal intensively with interactive information design and the high quality relationships between Interface Design and Product Design. They are geared towards the integral design of utility processes of hard- and software in the sense of holistic design ability.
We design the relational experiences between humans and artefacts – from functional products and software applications via services and social structures up to media installations. During the study programme we consciously leave our terrain as designers. We search for the challenge of the electronic experiment and narrative story tellingin animation and film. We equally look for the interdisciplinary proximity and friction of research projects of scientific disciplines which inspire us. This is done always with the objective in mind of opening our eyes and thoughts and questioning with great empathy how design can be developed further, sustainably with regard to human needs and desires.

For particular questions relating to the field of study, please contact:

Prof. Frank Jacob
T +49 – (0)4 31 – 51 98-475
E jacob@muthesius.de