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Study Details: 1 Year
Our MSc in User Experience (UX) Design course follows a human-centred design approach to understanding, designing, and evaluating digital experiences. User Experience includes all aspects of an end-user’s interaction with a product/service. We use UX to drive change within context, content, and users. Empathising with a user’s needs, motivations and behaviours is critical in today’s evolving digital landscape.
Our User Experience course welcomes you into postgraduate study from a range of backgrounds including computer science, design, media, and psychology and supports technical and non-technical disciplines. You’ll gain in-depth theoretical knowledge and build on essential UX skills through testing, analysing, and evaluating. Complimented by hands-on practical experiences focusing on creative thinking, problem-solving and prototyping. The UX course focuses on modern technologies that allow us to create meaningful, disruptive, and transformative experiences.
The course covers industry and academic knowledge, encouraging best practices. You'll learn to adopt industry frameworks and tools mixed with academic methods and methodologies. These create the foundations for designing, developing, and studying emerging technologies. Our academic experts specialise in designing content and interactions for core, ubiquitous and future technologies. They have expertise in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer Science, and Software Engineering. This knowledge will guide you through UX applied research and help you develop skills in applying design principles. You'll also learn about data collection, analysis and evaluation for both qualitative and quantitative data. You'll apply this knowledge by developing a portfolio of low and high-fidelity digital prototypes. This work will be rooted in research problems and industry challenges.
Applicants should hold at least 2:2 degree in related subject such as Computer Science/Computing/Software Engineering/Games Development, Games/Product/Graphic/Interaction Design, Psychology, Media/Creative/Interactive Technologies, Web Design/Development
Students with non-standard qualifications or who have work experience will be considered on a case by case basis
Some taught or self-taught programming experience is expected
IELTS: 6.0 with no component lower than 5.5
The course will encourage you to follow a career in UX either via industry or further academic study. We aim to produce UX designers who are competent in essential UX skills and have theoretical and practical knowledge.
Skilled UX professionals are in demand and this course will prepare you for a wide range of exciting and well-paid careers. According to NNgroup, UX designers enjoy the process, impact recognition and opportunities User Experience brings as a career. Many of our alumni now work as UX specialists for major organisations such as the BBC and Tata and agencies. Both the course and our graduates are responsive to an evolving profession. Drawing insights from research and industry experience to ensure they can take advantage of the opportunities this exciting field brings.
Core Modules:
Master's Project
Research Methods
IT Projects and Programmes
User-Centred Design
Industry Project
Advanced Topics in User Experience
Prototyping and Evaluation
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