Interaction Design in India

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Useful resource e-links related to 'Interaction Design' in India
- includes HCI, User Centerd Design, Usability and Interface Design

International Resources

Indian Resources:
Industry
IxDesign Studios
MultiMedia Studios
Web Design Studios

Archives
- Digital Resource Centre at IGNCA, N Delhi
Resources on typography, Calligraphy, Photography, Graphics, etc

Articles
Business Standard writings on Design in India
National Design Policy
Writings by Prof. Ravi Poovaiah, IDC, IIT Bombay
'Interaction Design in India' by Prof. Anirudha Joshi
User Experience in India: State of the Profession 2004
Dr. Dinesh Katre's HCI Design blogbuster website
Pradeep Henry on Productive-interface Engineering

D'source
- resources on Interaction design in India - courses, case studies, etc.

Organisations
Associations
InDeAs
Standards, IPR

Groups
Bytes for All
Centre for Knowledge Societies
TeNeT Group at IIT Madras
Design for All at IIT Bombay
Academy of Electronic Arts

Works
The Sacred World Foundation by Ranjit Makkuni
- connecting technology with traditional cultures
Interaction Design Projects at IDC, IIT Bombay
Doors of Perception 8, Delhi
Education for a Sustainable Future - a hole in the Wall
Affordable Information and Communication Technology

e-Groups
HCI
India CHI
Design India
IDCian, IDCians
NID Folks

Discussion Forums
HCI India.

Institutions
All Schools
NID
IDC, IIT Bombay
Sristi, Bangalore
IIT Guwahati
IIT Kanpur
Museums

ID at IDC, IIT Bombay
- 2 year Master of Design (M. Des) in Interaction Design
- Doctoral Degrees (Ph. D)
- Admission through CEED

ID at NID, Ahmedabad
- 4 year) Graduate Diploma Programme in Design (GDPD)
- 2 1/2 year Post - Graduate Diploma Programme in New Media, Software Interface Design (PGDPD)

PD at Sristi, Bangalore
- 2 + 2 year Professional Diploma in Product and Interface Design Admission through Entrance Examination + Interview

VCD at IIT Kanpur
- 2 year Master of Design (M. Des) Admission through CEED

Resources
Usability Matters.

Design Firms
Northern
Chaos India, Gurgaon
Design for Use, Delhi
Experential Design lab, Delhi
Hexo Labs, Kanpur
Idea Farms, Delhi
Incubis, Delhi
Sacred World, Delhi
Think Design , Delhi
Southern
Bang Design, Bangalore
CKS, Bangalore
Design Directions, Cochin
Dig Design Studio, Bangalore
Studio Fra, Bangalore
Think Design , Hyderabad
Western
Elephant Design, Pune
Fractal Link, Mumbai
Iternia, Pune
Sauve Design, Pune
Design Ticket, Pune

Interaction Design related Industries
Cognizant India, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata
HP Labs India, Bangalore
Honeywell India, Bangalore
Infosys, Bangalore
MindTree, Bangalore
MicroSoft Research India, Bangalore
Motorola Research India, Bangalore
Oracle India, Bangalore, Hyderabad
Sap Labs India, Bangalore
Yahoo, Bangalore
Adobe, Noida
IBM Research India, Delhi, IBM India, Bangalore
MBT, Delhi, Mumbai, Pune
HCL, Delhi, etc.
Sapient India , Gurgaon
Whirlpool India, Delhi
Cordys Asia, Vanenburg, Hyderabad
Microsoft India Development Centre, Hyderabad
Human Factors International, Mumbai, Bangalore
MphasiS, Mumbai
Patni Computers, Mumbai, Pune
SAS India, Mumbai
Philips India , Pune
Veritas, Pune

Organisations
CHI- South India
Indo European Systems Usability Partnership

International Resources:

International Resources

International Webzines
ACM Interactions - articles on people, design, technology
Ask Tog - articles on interaction design - real world
Box and Arrows - discussion on design and innovation
Clear - AIGA - journal on design from AIGA
Cooper - blog about design & business
Designin For Humans - about design research, ergonomics ..
Doors , Doors 8 - about design by John Thackara
Good Experience - focus on user experience
Guuui - articles about Interaction Design
Human Factors Newsletter
Infosthetics - information aesthetics - form follows data
Interaction Design - hci, usability, info architecture, etc.
Information Design - links to information design.
Johnny Holland - about interactions of experience design
New Thinking - web content management
Smashing Magazine - useful information to web designers
Technology Review (India) - emerging technology from MIT
Usability News - for news in usability and HCI
Use It - Jacob Nielson on usability & web design
Ux Design - resources on user experience design
UXmatters - artciles on user experience design
Visual Complexity - visualization of complex networks
Wired - about the digital world

Resource Links
A-Z of User Experience Design - links to extensive resources by Dev Alexander
A-Z of Interaction Design - articles and resources on IxD
Dan Saffer - about his books, blogs and resources
Digital Art - database on digital art installtions
Digital Artists - database on digital artists
HCI Bibliography - links to over 57,000 HCI resources
History of IxD - links to IxD historyresources
Nathan Shedroff - experience design resources
Semantic Foundry - resources on interaction design
Small Surfaces - IxD resources for mobile devices
Usability.gov - a guide to usable &useful web sites

Suggested Readings
on HCI by Gary Perlman - carefully selected collection of books and references

Blogs
Beginners-Guide
Experientia
Interaction Design
Interaction Design blog
Interactiive Multimedia Technology blog
Pixel Sumo Online Books:

People
Aaron Marcus, Interface
Bill Buxton, Humans & Tech.
Bill Mogridge, Interaction D
Bill Verpank, HCI
Brenda Laurel, Interface
Bruce Tognazzini, Interface
Don Norman, Usability
Gitta Solomon, Interaction D
Jacob Nielsen, Usability
Joy Mountford, Interaction D
Larry Tesler, Innovation UED
Terry Winograd, HCI

Firms
Abbe Don
Cooper
Frog Design
Human Factors International
Ideo
Niels en Norman Group
Microsoft
Philips Design
Swim Studio
Sacred World

Schools
Art Centre, USA
CMU, USA
Delft, Holland
Domus Academy, Italy
IDC IIT Bombay, India
Interactive Institute, Sweden
ITP, NYU, USA
KAIST, Korea
MIT Media Lab, USA
RCA, UK
RISD, UK
USC, USA

International Organisations
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
Interaction Design Association
Interactions Design Group
SIGGRAPH
SIGCHI
CHI Web Discussion Group
Usability Professionals' Association
User Experience Network

Conferences - events
Interaction Design - Calender
Ars Electronica - platform for digital art and media culture

Video
CHI Conference Videos - Retrospective Special Collection
Designing Interactions - book and interviews by several IxD designers
Interaction Design - Videos on IxD on You-Tube
Interaction Design - Videos on IxD on google video
User Experience Design - from google videos
25 User Experience Videos - from smashing magazine
20 Cool IxD Concepts - from IxD blog