The New Media Design programme is offered as a two year post-graduate
diploma programme to those who have a bachelor’s degree in specific
disciplines and have basic competence with multimedia software and
convergent technologies.

The programme aims at developing dynamic New Media producers
who understand and are conversant with the process of creating and
distributing media content electronically, be it a CD-ROM, website, kiosk
etc. They will have the knowledge of all aspects of production and
business, including legal issues such as intellectual property rights. They
will be capable of leading teams in a multimedia environment.

As New Media becomes the creative and technological platform for
diverse ways of interaction from buying and selling to training, information
and entertainment, job definitions could be many. Graduates from
this programme can look forward to rewarding careers as multimedia
producers, web designers, game designers etc. They may find job-creating
computer-based training programmes, standalone databases, kiosks or
CD-ROMS for education, entertainment or interactive satellite television.
Courses include Digital Image Making, Visual Thinking, Systems Design,
Interface Design, Cognitive Psychology and Cultural Theory, Research
Methods, Web Design, e-commerce etc. Students actively participate
in seminars that are highly intensive sessions, combining elements of
research, critical enquiry and analysis, to emerge with strong propositions
that will shape the praxis of design for New Media. The seminars also work
as tools to get the pulse of the rapidly changing multimedia industry.

Students acquire professional attitudes and abilities by working
independently and as teams under faculty guidance on design projects. In
this, they are exposed to professional situations at NID, where they can
test their abilities. Each final year student is required to produce a thesis or
an interactive media product.