User Experience (UX) Design The University of Lancashire

Overview

The User Experience course welcomes you into postgraduate study from a range of backgrounds including computer science, design, media, and psychology and supports technical and non-technical disciplines. 

Key facts

• You’ll gain in-depth theoretical knowledge and build on essential UX skills through testing, analysing, and evaluating. Complimented by hands-on practical experiences focusing on creative thinking, problem-solving and prototyping.
• The UX course focuses on modern technologies that allow us to create meaningful, disruptive, and transformative experiences.
• The User Experience (UX) Design course from The University of Lancashire  covers industry and academic knowledge, encouraging best practices. You'll learn to adopt industry frameworks and tools mixed with academic methods and methodologies. These create the foundations for designing, developing, and studying emerging technologies. The university academic experts specialise in designing content and interactions for core, ubiquitous and future technologies. They have expertise in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer Science, and Software Engineering. This knowledge will guide you through UX applied research and help you develop skills in applying design principles. You'll also learn about data collection, analysis and evaluation for both qualitative and quantitative data. You'll apply this knowledge by developing a portfolio of low and high-fidelity digital prototypes. This work will be rooted in research problems and industry challenges.
• The course will encourage you to follow a career in UX either via industry or further academic study. We aim to produce UX designers who are competent in essential UX skills and have theoretical and practical knowledge. 
• Skilled UX professionals are in demand and this course will prepare you for a wide range of exciting and well-paid careers. According to NNgroup, UX designers enjoy the process, impact recognition and opportunities User Experience brings as a career. Many of our alumni now work as UX specialists for major organisations such as the BBC and Tata and agencies. Both the course and our graduates are responsive to an evolving profession. Drawing insights from research and industry experience to ensure they can take advantage of the opportunities this exciting field brings.