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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鈥檒l explore the use of human-computer interaction research methods to evaluate the user鈥檚 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鈥檒l 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