RESERVE MY SPOT

Riccardo focuses on the relationship between humans and technology to invent and design innovative solutions that help enrich and improve our lives.

He is the Principal Creative Director at Microsoft leading the New Experiences and Technologies incubation team, a multidisciplinary team with the goal to inspire, prove, and enable transformative experiences that push and define new platforms and devices. His latest project was the incubation of Microsoft HoloLens, the first fully untethered Holographic Computing device.

As a creative leader, Riccardo strives to build inclusive environments that foster creativity and enable people to express their full potential. He champions design and leads creative teams through strategy, research, ideation, prototyping, and validation.

Students will learn how to appreciate, analyse, and define effective interaction designs to helps create effective products and experiences.

The class will be a mix of short lectures, open discussions, and group assignments, where students will be asked to go through the creative process to research, ideate, design, and validate new solutions.

SKILLS:

- User Experience

- Interaction Design

- Mixed Reality

- Creative Direction

- Usability

- Product Design

- Innovation

- Digital Strategy

- Holograms

- Human Computer Interaction

DATE: 31 July - 4 Aug, 2017

DURATION: 5 Days

LECTURES: 3 Hours per day

LANGUAGE: English

LOCATION: Barcelona, Harbour.Space Campus

COURSE TYPE: Offline

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

COURSE OUTLINE

ABOUT RICCARDO

BIBLIOGRAPHY

HARBOUR.SPACE 

CREATING AND APPLYING INTERACTIVITY

This course covers the basics of interaction design a relatively new discipline that focuses on the interactions between people and technology.

Starting from the first tool human used, to complex interfaces and autonomous cars: this course analyses the evolving relationship between human and technology.

Through a series of short lectures, small assignments, and hands-on studio work, participants will learn how to appreciate and design effective solutions that leverage and augment human capabilities. Students will learn how to analyse existing interfaces, identify their strengths and weaknesses, and use design principles to design effective interactions for present and future technologies.

RICCARDO GIRALDI

Principal Creative Director at Microsoft

HARBOUR.SPACE UNIVERSITY

DATE: 31 July– 4 Aug, 2017

DURATION:  5 Days

LECTURES: 3 Hours per day

LANGUAGE: English

LOCATION: Barcelona, Harbour.Space Campus

COURSE TYPE: Offline

CREATING
AND APPLYING INTERACTIVITY

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