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Santa Monica College Interaction Design Design your future with a Bachelor’s Degree in Interaction Design from Santa Monica College.

What if your future career hasn't been invented yet?Design what comes next with a four-year B.S. in Interaction Design a...
10/07/2026

What if your future career hasn't been invented yet?

Design what comes next with a four-year B.S. in Interaction Design at Santa Monica College for just $10K.*

Learn at the intersection of art, technology, and human psychology. Work with industry partners. Build skills for emerging careers in interaction design, product design, creative technology, XR/spatial design, and more.

Ready to see what’s possible?

Join IxD Program Faculty Lead Nicole Chan for our upcoming info session:

📅 Wednesday, October 21, 7:00 PM PT
💻 Zoom + Live Q&A
🔗 Link in bio to register

*Estimated cost for California residents. See program website for details.

09/22/2026

Introducing the Class of 2028! Welcome, Cohort 11! 🙌

We’re excited to have this curious, creative group as part of our IxD community and can’t wait to see what they explore, question, and make over the next two years.

They’ve hit the ground running, already researching out in the field to shape their future projects and discover what problems they want to start solving.

Here’s to creating a memorable IxD experience! 🎉

🎥: Romell McKenzie (Romell McKenzie )

09/17/2026

Last week, our IxD seniors got out of the studio and into the B Local Los Angeles community.✨

Romell, Audreen, and Marcus G. joined Good Company, a B Local LA event hosted at Room & Board (Room & Board Modern Furniture ) in Culver City, to meet people, make connections, and learn more about the community they’ll be working with this semester.

They came ready to research, too. Romell put his ethnographic research skills to work, gathering observations and data throughout the evening while documenting the event.

Now they’re bringing what they learned back to their projects, from storytelling to exploring ideas for B Local LA’s town hall and member insights efforts.

One of their key takeaways? B Corporations bring together determined people who support each other and learn from one another.

And apparently, they also know how to send you home with a very good snack bag. Audreen and Romell filled theirs with food and treats, all sourced from B Corps. 🥐

🎥 Reel by Romell McKenzie (Romell McKenzie )

We’re so excited to announce B Local LA as an industry partner this year! 🌴B Local LA () is part of the global B Corp co...
09/14/2026

We’re so excited to announce B Local LA as an industry partner this year! 🌴

B Local LA () is part of the global B Corp community, bringing together businesses across Los Angeles that are part of a global movement working to benefit people and the planet.

On the first day of the fall semester, our IxD seniors jumped straight into discovery, working in five teams across CRM, storytelling, branding, website design, and town hall planning.

MaCher (a B Corp that designs sustainable, purpose-driven products) hosted us at their office on Abbott Kinney to meet with B Local LA stakeholders and begin digging into the work.

A big thank you to MaCher for welcoming our students, treating everyone to tacos 🌮, and sending them home with some very on-brand merch.

We’re excited to see where this partnership takes our students and what we’ll design together with B Local LA this year!

📸Photo Credit:

✨SMC IxD Professor SpotlightMeet the professors who helped shape the new SMC IxD curriculum, bringing their diverse back...
09/09/2026

✨SMC IxD Professor Spotlight

Meet the professors who helped shape the new SMC IxD curriculum, bringing their diverse backgrounds, industry experience, and unique perspectives to the 2026–27 academic year.

Our first highlight is Professor Redelia Shaw, who started the Intro to Media Writing & Producing Short-Form Content course.

Professor Shaw started out as a VTR logger and camera assistant in the Opening and Closing Ceremonies for the 1996 Olympic Games, and she went on to work on major productions.

Which binge-worthy TV shows do you think Shaw was behind the scenes on? (Hint: 📎Dunder Mifflin)

🔗Check out our 2026 Annual Report at the link in bio to discover what other iconic productions she worked on.

✨Fall Kickoff at IxD!A new semester, a new cohort, and a room full of curiosity. We kicked off the fall semester by brin...
09/04/2026

✨Fall Kickoff at IxD!

A new semester, a new cohort, and a room full of curiosity.

We kicked off the fall semester by bringing Cohorts 10 and 11 together with IxD faculty, board members, industry leaders, and members of the SMC community for an afternoon of lunch, conversation, and connection.

After lunch, students headed to the Green Room for a creative reflection game led by IxD Professor Maxim. They explored questions around process, ambition, failure, inspiration, money, play, power, and what stands between where they are, and where they want to go.

The answers were as unexpected as they were thoughtful, with Claude Shannon even emerging as a shared source of inspiration. 👀

It was a pretty fitting way to start the year: asking bigger questions, getting curious, and thinking about what we want to create next.

Here’s to a new semester of creating, experimenting, and learning together. 🙌

✨ Congrats to our students and recent graduates who completed Snap Academies! Over the summer, Lie Burgess (IxD ’26) and...
09/02/2026

✨ Congrats to our students and recent graduates who completed Snap Academies!

Over the summer, Lie Burgess (IxD ’26) and Rafael Sanchez (IxD senior) participated in the Design Academy, while Devin Williams (IxD senior) explored AR through the Lens Academy.

Students spent the program experimenting, building, collaborating, and developing real-world skills alongside professional development designed to help prepare them for what comes next.

Jon Lopez (IxD ’26), and Snap Academy alum, returned as a program coach to help guide this year’s cohort, a pretty great full-circle moment for the community. 🙌

We’re proud of everything they created and the curiosity they brought to the experience.

Huge thanks to Snap Inc and Next Shift Learning for giving our students these amazing opportunities!

➡️Swipe to see what they created!

✨ Congrats to our students and recent graduates who completed Snap Academies!

Over the summer, Lie Burgess (IxD ’26) and Rafael Sanchez (IxD senior) participated in the Design Academy, while Devin Williams (IxD senior) explored AR through the Lens Academy.

Students spent the program experimenting, building, collaborating, and developing real-world skills alongside professional development designed to help prepare them for what comes next.

Jon Lopez (IxD ’26), and Snap Academy alum, returned as a program coach to help guide this year’s cohort, a pretty great full-circle moment for the community. 🙌

We’re proud of everything they created and the curiosity they brought to the experience.

Huge thanks to Snap Inc and Next Shift Learning for giving our students these amazing opportunities!

➡️Swipe to see what they created!

✨ Congrats to our students and recent graduates who completed Snap Academies!

Over the summer, Lie Burgess (IxD ’26) and Rafael Sanchez (IxD senior) participated in the Design Academy, while Devin Williams (IxD senior) explored AR through the Lens Academy.

Students spent the program experimenting, building, collaborating, and developing real-world skills alongside professional development designed to help prepare them for what comes next.

Jon Lopez (IxD ’26), and Snap Academy alum, returned as a program coac

Curious about turning ideas into meaningful digital experiences? Join us for the Santa Monica College Interaction Design...
09/01/2026

Curious about turning ideas into meaningful digital experiences? Join us for the Santa Monica College Interaction Design B.S. Program Information Session.

📅Tuesday, September 15, 7:00 PM PST
💻Zoom + Live Q&A

Learn how our thoughtfully developed, cohort-based program prepares students for creative, technology-driven careers, including Interaction Designer, Product Designer, Experience Designer, and Creative Technologist roles.

Through hands-on studio projects and collaboration within a tight-knit cohort, students build adaptable skills for tech and a rapidly changing work landscape.

The program also engages with leading industry partners, giving students exposure to real-world design challenges and professional feedback.

Whether you're accelerating your growth or considering a meaningful shift for your future, this session is an opportunity to ask questions, connect with program faculty, and explore what's possible.

🔗Link in bio to register

✨SMC IxD Professor SpotlightWould you trade Wi-Fi for curiosity? 🌎Professor Eric Minzenberg once lived in a mountain vil...
08/28/2026

✨SMC IxD Professor Spotlight

Would you trade Wi-Fi for curiosity? 🌎

Professor Eric Minzenberg once lived in a mountain village with no running water or electricity. Could you do it?

He has led study abroad programs to Brazil, Belize, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, and Mexico, where he arranged for students to live with local families, contribute to communities, and experience cultural exchange firsthand.

Now teaching Ethnographic Research Methods for Designers for the IxD program, Professor Minzenberg is helping students design with deeper empathy and cultural insight.

🔗Check out our 2026 Annual Report at the link in bio to discover how he spent a year off-the-grid.

🎥Swipe to check out Professor Minzenberg’s personal archive of photos from his trips.

📸Peace Corps trip in Ecuador (1995-1997)
Professor Minzenberg in La Laguna, where he worked on a pig breeding project, received from a grant, for the local peoples.

📸Dissertation Fieldwork in Brazil (2002-2004)
Professor Minzenberg with a family in Girasol, Acre, Brazil.

📸Dissertation Fieldwork in Brazil (2002-2004)
Jose and Dora making farinha.

📸Dissertation Fieldwork in Brazil (2002-2004)
A malaria check by the state government. Professor Minzenberg’s boat operator, Jesus, is on the far left.

📸Dissertation Fieldwork in Brazil (2002-2004)
Marcia, one of professor Minzenberg’s local research assistants, interviewing Seu in his home.

📸Dissertation Fieldwork in Brazil (2002-2004)
The Moa River, Professor Minzeberg traveled on to reach communities.

📸Dissertation Fieldwork in Brazil (2002-2004)
View of the Amazon from the far western part of Brazil. The Moa River in the photo is the one Professor Minzenberg traveled on to reach the communities he worked with.

📸Dissertation Fieldwork in Brazil (2002-2004)
Vangela of the group Pesacre, working with local communities in animals and hunting. This is somewhat like a Pile Sort methodology.

📸Dominica Republic Trip (2007)
Jenny’s house in Cruz Verde. Professor Minzenberg stayed with her family during the week they were there.

📸Dominica Republic Trip (2007)
Two of Professor Minzenberg’s students are resting with the family in Cruz

✨Alumni SpotlightsFrom the IxD classroom to the CES stage. 🚀 IxD alum Audra Walker (‘23) is leading product design at Jo...
08/27/2026

✨Alumni Spotlights

From the IxD classroom to the CES stage. 🚀 

IxD alum Audra Walker (‘23) is leading product design at Jona and represented the company at CES, where she showcased AI-powered health technology to thousands of attendees. 

Research, empathy, and curiosity shape her work: “Hearing from users who’ve discovered the root of their health issues and improved their lives, that’s everything.”

🔗Link in bio to our 2026 Annual Report.

Reimagining reality one experience at a time. ✨

 This year, IxD alum Christian Enriquez (‘21) brought augmented reality to one of LA’s most iconic cultural institutions: the Natural History Museum. 

As founder of Reality Experience Design, Christian creates immersive AR experiences that transform how people engage with public spaces, museums, and storytelling. 

Read more in our 2026 Annual Report. 🔗Link in bio.

From the first IxD cohort to the global design stage. 🌍 

This year, IxD alum Heidi Gaudet (‘18) received a prestigious Red Dot Design Award for TradeAware, a platform that uses AI and satellite data to help companies build more sustainable supply chains. 

Read how curiosity, experimentation, and a willingness to embrace the unknown have shaped Heidi’s career in our 2026 Annual Report. 🔗Link in bio.

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