IDX at Illinois Institute of Technology

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate IDX coursework.

• IDX 504Prototyping Methodsopens 1 course (1 directly)
• IDX 518Interaction Design Methodsopens 1 course (1 directly)
• IDX 542Analysis + Synthesisopens 1 course (1 directly)
• IDX 550Building and Understanding Contextopens 1 course (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate IDX work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 8 IDX and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 34 more IDX courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in IDX. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at IDX 512

  1. IDX 504Prototyping Methods
  2. IDX 512Product Design Workshop

• 2 courses deep, ending at IDX 524

  1. IDX 518Interaction Design Methods
  2. IDX 524Interaction Design Workshop

• 2 courses deep, ending at IDX 537

  1. IDX 550Building and Understanding Context
  2. IDX 537Designing Futures

• 2 courses deep, ending at IDX 548

  1. IDX 542Analysis + Synthesis
  2. IDX 548Innovation Methods

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for IDX yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under IDX yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

IDX does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Illinois Tech campus feed.