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MSc User Experience (UX) Design

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    MSc Full-time: One year; Part-time: Two years

Course Description

User Experience Design (UxD) is a highly sought specialist skill enabling the creation of compelling user experiences that keep individuals engaged with interactive computing products. This course is ideal if you have some existing programming skills and but wish to understand users and work with them to create technologies with positive user experiences. There is a growing demand for UX professionals and this course will provide you with skills and expertise needed to work in a team or individually to design and evaluate successful products. There is also a vibrant international research community developing new methods and theories that underpin UX within the broad field of HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) and more specific Interaction Design (IxD) and User Experience (UxD) areas, which you will encounter on the course. You will be taught by staff that are research active within the field of UX and working with UX practitioners within companies.

Entry Requirements

Specific entry requirements for the course are a recognised British Honours degree (or its equivalent) with a minimum of a 2.1, or equivalent, in a Computing or Technology-related subject area; or a recognised British Honours degree (or its equivalent) in a non-computing subject area plus substantial relevant experience.

Students with non-standard qualifications or who have work experience will be considered on a case by case basis, some programming experience (through a taught programme or self-taught) is expected.

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UK/EU: http://www.uclan.ac.uk/study_here/fees_and_finance/uk-eu-tuition-fees.php
International: http://www.uclan.ac.uk/study_here/fees_and_finance/international_tuition_fees.php

Student Destinations

The goal of the course is to guide you, depending on your interests, to either go out into Industry or to progress to an academic research career. We aim to produce Interaction Design practitioners who understand how to create excellent interaction designs for a range of different scenarios.

Placement opportunities are available as an option for students who want to gain some work experience as part of the course.

We also aim to give you a grounding in the Interaction Design research area so you can apply the latest research in your career.

Our alumni have gone on to work a range of destinations including UX specialists, the BBC, and Tata.

Module Details

SEMESTER 1

 
One semester consists of three taught modules that provide grounding in postgraduate study and in the techniques and theories appropriate to User Experience (UX) Design. In the other taught semester, students will study the specialist module UX Away from the Desktop, the project management module, and an option to broaden their UX or development skills. The project module is studied in Semesters 3 (June to September), during this time students work under supervision to complete a research or development-based project.
  • CO4820 Critical Analysis
  • CO4754 User-Centred System Design & Evaluation
  • CO4732 Advanced Topics in UX
SEMESTER 2
  • CO4753 UX Away from the Desktop
  • CO4830 IT Projects & Programmes
Optional modules, choose one of the following:
  • CO4732 Child Computer Interaction
  • CO4752 Web Application Development
  • CO4832 Independent Investigation
SEMESTER 3
  • CO4804 Masters Project
Optional additional module:
  • CO4882 Professional Placement

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