Interactive Design: Foundations of Animation and Interaction Design

Visual Design CC

Interactive Design is a project-based curriculum that develops key digital communication skills such as design, project management, research and communication, and animation, game design, and interaction design technical skills using Adobe tools.

Interactive Design can be used in interactive design education or in more general career and technical education. Each project builds on lessons learned previously and contains an instructor guide (with learning objectives, step-by-step teaching instructions, assessment rubric, and details on alignment to the Adobe Certified Associate exams) and a series of activities to teach students. Activities include student technical guides, worksheets, and best practice guides. Utilize the entire curriculum, individual projects, or individual activities to adapt this content to your course.

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Introduction

The Interactive Design introduction includes an overview of the curriculum, with a skills matrix, classroom enrichment, and skills overview rubric.

Project 2: Game design & planning

In this project, students, working in teams, begin to plan and design a simple interactive game for a client. Teams create game planning documents and designs.

Project 3: Building a Flash game

In this project, student teams follow their game design documents to complete the technical build of the client game. Students learn technical skills in Flash Professional to build and code the game.

Project 4: Portfolios

In this project, students create a portfolio of their work and explore career opportunities in the interactive media design fields.

Adobe Digital Careers Teaching Resources

Interactive Design is one of the Adobe Digital Careers curriculums. To learn more about these curriculums and other teaching resources, please visit the Adobe Digital Careers page.
Adobe Certified Associate

Adobe Certified Associate alignment

Interactive Design aligns to the Adobe Certified Associate exam for Interactive Media with Flash Professional.

ISTE Standards for Students

Digital Design aligns with the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Standards for Students (2007). Learn more about the ISTE Standards for Students.
Visual Design archive

Interactive Design archive

In the past, the content in Interactive Design was part of the Digital Design curriculum. Access past versions of the Digital Design curriculum for interactive design projects.