Interaction designers create the user's experience with a product—for example, interaction design principles apply to building digital interfaces, as designers must focus on improving how individuals engage with technology. Interaction designers work with the appearance and functionality of an application or software to get users to respond in a certain way—subscribing, signing up for an account, or posting on the platform, to name a few.

Social innovation design is still developing as a field, but the concept isn't new. Like interaction design, social innovation looks at what drives human behavior and how these drives interact with one another. It's about using these interactions to draw meaning and create designs that attract and impact the social climate.

Product design is a term that has evolved over time to encompass both industrial and interactive design. While industrial design refers to physical objects, interactive design is an umbrella term for digital skills like mobile app design, digital interface and platform design, web design, and other non-physical designed experiences. Product Design at SVA offers master's courses in product design that hone students' skills in the areas of industrial and interactive design. While the term 'product design' here is all-encompassing, the applications are unique.

Industrial designers combine business, art, and engineering to develop concepts for manufactured products. The top jobs in this field are industrial designers, product designers, project managers, and design engineers.

These professionals develop concepts for manufactured products including electronic devices, home appliances, furniture, cars, toys, medical devices - really anything you see in the built environment. They create products people use every day.