Interaction Design Foundation
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The Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF) is an educational organization[1] which produces open access educational materials[2] online with the stated goal to make educational materials accessible globally.[3][4] The platform also offers courses taught by industry experts and professors in user experience, psychology, user interface design, and design thinking.[5]
While not accredited, the curriculum and content are structured at the graduate level[6], targeting at both industry and academia in the fields of interaction design, design thinking, user experience, information architecture, and user interface design.
The centerpieces of IxDF.org are their online design courses, are their online design courses, their resource library, their local chapters in more than 105 countries, and their peer reviewed Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction[7], which currently holds textbooks and articles written by leading designers and professors, as well as commentaries and HD video interviews.[8][9][10][11][12]
In June 2013, the Interaction Design Foundation launched a 4 year 35,000 mile bike tour, named "Share the Knowledge Tour",[13] to raise awareness of the rising cost of education, with weekly events on university campuses.
Financial sponsors include the German software company SAP. Authors include Harvard professor Clayton Christensen[14] and New York Times bestselling author, Robert Spence[15] who invented the "magnifying glass" visualization that is familiar to anyone with an iPhone or iMac, and Stu Card, who also performed the research that led to the computer mouse's commercial introduction by Xerox.
The Executive Board currently include Don Norman[16], Ken Friedman, Bill Buxton, Irene Au, Michael Arent, Daniel Rosenberg, Jonas Lowgren, and Olof Schybergson.