Web and Interactive Design Focus
Web design is the process of creating and designing the visual aspect of websites using coding and digital tools. This field emphasizes the importance of aesthetics and user experience to create effective and functional websites.
Students with a background in web and interactive design often go into careers in web development, UX/UI design, front end development, graphic design and other fields.
This professional focus dovetails well with a major in Art & Design and Psychology, but may be of interest to students from any liberal arts background.
Suggested Elective Choices
One course each in fundamentals of web design and user interface design:
- DIDA 265: Web Design
- DIDA 380C: UX Research and Design
One additional design or technical course:
- DIDA 110: Database Fundamentals
- DIDA 120: Interactive Fiction
- DIDA 260: Data Visualization
- DIDA 280X: Deep Fakes: Reality, Deception
- HARP 151: Programming in Action
- ARTS 410: Graphic Design 3 (for Graphic Design students)
- PSYC 344: Research Methods (for Psychology students)
Example Coursework
The following shows a few ways that students can fit the recommended courses into a DIDA minor. Courses in bold are double-counted between the major shown and DIDA.
| DIDA Requirement |
(General) |
Graphic Design |
Psychology |
| Programming | HARP 150 | HARP 150 | HARP 150 |
| Statistics | DIDA 130 | DIDA 130 |
PSYC 243 |
| Intro Elective | DIDA 120 | DIDA 265 | DIDA 265 |
| Free Elective | DIDA 265 | ARTS 410 | PSYC 344 |
| Upper-level Elective | DIDA 380C | DIDA 380C | DIDA 380C |
| Methods | DIDA 325 (Python) | DIDA 325 (Python) | DIDA 325 (R) |
| Capstone | DIDA 426 | DIDA 426 | DIDA 426 |