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User Experience (UX) Design MA (Online)

User Experience (UX) Design MA (Online)

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Study mode

Online

Duration

2 years

Start date

27-MAY-24

Key information
DATA SOURCE : IDP Connect

Qualification type

MA - Master of Arts

Subject areas

Human Computer Interface (Hci) Development Design (Non-Industrial)

Course type

Taught

Course Summary

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.

You’ll explore the use of human-computer interaction research methods to evaluate the user’s needs and improve the experiences you create, and learn how user-centred design can be applied in areas such as the Internet of Things, creative apps, museum installations, educational technology and immersive business. You’ll also gain the ability to critically reflect upon and evaluate working methods and find the most effective ways to collaborate.

You will:

  • Explore how to innovate as a user experience (UX) designer to create engaging interfaces and interactions, keeping and controlling the IP of any interfaces you produce
  • 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
  • Develop the skills needed to collaborate effectively and to pitch and present your concepts and ideas clearly and with confidence

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

Modules

By devising a series of small-scale creative artefacts, you'll use your existing ideas about development practice and then experiment with new approaches to challenge these ideas. This will enable you to create a personal case study, from which you can define how to expand and enrich your practice. Beyond the personal case study, you'll gain a broader sense of the contexts in which these practices are applied across disciplines.

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£6,075

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

£6,075

Entry requirements

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