User Experience (UX) Design PG Dip (Online)

Apply key principles of user-centered design to create original work.

Course overview

Use human-computer interaction research methods to evaluate the user's needs and improve the experiences you create for them. Join our UX Design master's course and gain practical skills in how to evaluate artefacts and development processes in an ongoing and iterative way.

Learn how user-centered design can be applied in areas such as the Internet of Things, creative apps, museum installations, educational technology and immersive business.

You will:

Explore how to innovate as a user experience designer
Learn methods from experimental psychology and data science to better understand how people engage with digital products and services
Practice interaction design across a range of application domains, including cybersecurity
You'll also be able to keep and control any IP interfaces you produce.

Course details

On this UX Design masters, you will learn to create engaging interfaces and interactions, appropriately evaluating usability and professionally applying key principles of experience design. You'll gain the ability to critically reflect upon and evaluate working methods and find the most effective ways to collaborate on projects. You'll also learn how to pitch your ideas; communicating concepts and presenting artefacts visually with clarity and enthusiasm.

Careers

This UX Design master's degree is for anyone who is excited by the opportunities presented by technology and who wants to carry out practice-based research to create thoughtful and engaging user experiences.

Games Academy graduates have worked as:

Creative practitioners at companies such as MediaTonic, Firesprite, Creative Assembly, Project Gamechanger and Rare
Creative AI specialists at companies including Ultrahaptics, Solutionpath and Bewsign
Researchers and developers at companies such as Facebook
Further study at doctoral-level in artificial intelligence and/or data science, sponsored by the likes of Google

An honours degree or Level 6 equivalent qualification is desirable. However, candidates without a degree or formal qualification are still encouraged to apply.