User Experience Design MSc (PGCert PGDip)

at University of Brighton

Course structure
 

The course can be studied full-time or part-time.
 

The taught element of the course is delivered during the first two semesters. Modules involve approximately 20% classroom teaching and 80% individual or group work. The third semester focuses on your major project.
 

Part-time students study alongside full-time students with a minimum attendance of one half day per week, depending on the number of modules taken.
 

Core modules
 

• Major Project
  Your major project provides an opportunity to demonstrate your capacity to work at masters level as an independent researcher and/or developer in your chosen area of expertise. You will produce an independent piece of research written as a dissertation, or design and produce an interactive product. 
• Research Methods
  You will develop the professional perspectives and skills needed to plan, carry out and evaluate research in your field of informatics-related studies. You also build your understanding of the social, legal and ethical issues in this context. 
• Interaction Design and Evaluation Process
  This module provides professional software developers with a solid foundation for developing user interaction aspects of projects, and the capability to reliably evaluate the usability of your own and others work. 
• Interface and Information Design
  You will build on your understanding of the user centred interaction design process, developing your interface design skills and enabling you to produce work to a commercial design quality. 
• Design Thinking
  This module helps you develop your creative problem solving and design thinking through practice. You will be guided through the entire design process using research methods to understand stakeholder groups, identify need and create an innovative, user-centric and ethical solution. Whether a process, service, produce or an app. 

Degree and experience

Normally, a 2:2 honours degree in a relevant discipline, ie those including substantial elements of computing, psychology, information design or product design. For appropriate candidates without an honours degree, entry to the course will normally involve an interview.
 

English language requirements

IELTS 6.5 overall with a minimum of 5.5 in each element. 

International (full-time) - 15,462 GBP

Accredited by the British Computer Society, The Chartered Institute for IT for the purposes of partially meeting the academic requirement for registration as a Chartered IT Professional.
 

Accreditation is conditional on studying module ISM105 The Business and the Information System.
 

Graduate destinations 
 

UXD MSc graduates will be able to work as commercial interaction designers on both software and software-enabled physical products. This may also be a starting point for a research career in human-centred interaction design.
 

Our graduates are working in roles that include:

• digital consultant
• senior developer
• UX designer
• web designer
• digital marketer.