| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2024-10-07 | 2024-08-20 |
| 2025-02-10 | 2024-11-30 |
Program Overview
This MA program in User Experience Design trains students in the advanced skills of UX design, user research methods, and critical-theoretical background. Through three stages of course structure, students gain practical studio skills, explore prototyping techniques, and produce final design outcomes. Upon completion, graduates enhance their career opportunities in commercial design practice and improve their employability in the advertising industry.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
(UX) Design -Design User Experience Design- is a professionally focused, design-led course that will equip you with the specialist skills to conceive, prototype and produce human-centred experiences in an interactive digital context. The scope of UX design is large, and growing. This MA programme focus on research projects centred on the design of digital experiences—in particular, such interactive media as Web sites and software applications. You will learn the advanced studio skills of user experience design, the methods and practices of user research and the critical-theoretical background to the field. This course prepares you for the rapidly expanding field of UX – with a wide range of opportunities for advanced practitioners.
Outline:
Course Structure:
Stage 1: Design Ideation (60 credits)
Negotiate a ‘programme of study’ with your tutors to identify the topics that you intend to study and develop.
Choose to specialise in just one discipline or explore a number of different disciplines.
Your studies will include aspects of creative studio practice that are relevant to your named pathway.
There is also a theoretical element that contextualises your chosen discipline(s), alongside other design media, within the broader field of design.
Stage 2: Design development and Prototypes (60 credits)
Test out your ideas and experiences in this prototyping stage before the final outcome in Stage 3.
Practical output and theoretical contextualisation will continue to interact and build on each other.
Stage 3: Design Realisation and Production (60 credits)
Produce your final design outcomes leading to a portfolio of creative work that has evolved from the practice and theoretical research developed up to this point.
A Critical Evaluation Report will support your portfolio.
Assessment:
Assessment is 100% coursework and you will be continually assessed throughout the course. The course is continually assessed through module requirements, allowing students to achieve target awards. Final modules are graded Pass, Merit, Distinction. Graduates will improve their chance of employment in the advertising industry with their demonstrated enhanced specialism and understanding developed on the course.
Other:
Duration: 13 months
Educational form: Taught
Education Variants: Fulltime
Language: English
October's 2024 Intake:
Class Start Date: 7th October 2024
February's 2025 Intake:
Class Start Date: 10th February 2025
British Degree: Master of Arts in Design – University of Sunderland
