Overview
The Interaction Design MA course from the University of the Arts London (UAL) provides an opportunity for experimental practice in an area of design that increasingly explores the intersection of digital and networked technologies with the world.
What to expect?
- This course immerses you in critical, creative, and experimental practice. Using new technologies, you’ll engage and provoke audiences through contemporary issues such as digital privacy, the Climate Crisis, and social and economic inequality.
- On this course, we define interaction design as the practice of making objects, spaces, and experiences that instigate new relations with humans, environments, and the systems revolving around them. Through this, we find new ways to provoke imagination, discussion, and critique.
- Our integrated approach to critical thinking will enable you to work with critical ideas in an applied design context while encouraging you to develop your own voice as a critical practitioner.
You’ll develop practical skills in interaction design, physical computing, creative coding, and other new and traditional media forms. You’ll also build research skills in areas such as critical design, post-human centred design, feminist and decolonial theory, speculative design, and critical data studies. You’ll combine these methodologies and ideas into new and unique forms of practice.
Career opportunities:
Graduates of the course are equipped to work in an increasingly technologically informed and interdisciplinary design world with real skills in areas such as: interactive art and design, foresight and futures, interdisciplinary studio practice, though leadership, and digital arts.
A high number of our graduates continue to PhD research and become BA and MA lecturers, shaping the future of their field. Graduates are often awarded funded opportunities to exhibit their work around the world with work produced on this course.
Roles and destinations of recent graduates include:
- Mat Denney – Artist and Lecturer in Emergent Technologies, London College of Communication
- Eleni Xynologa – Interaction Designer, Red Design Consultants
- Mariana Marangoni – Artist and Lecturer in Computational Arts, London College of Communication
- Shuo Wang – Game Interaction Designer, ByteDance
- Rania Svoronou - Lead visual interaction design, IBM iX
- Qingyi Ren – PhD Researcher in Digital Technology and Gender, University of Linz
- Anqi Wang – PhD Researcher in Machine Learning, Aalto University
- Simona Ciocoiu - Interaction Designer, ICRI (Intel)
- Masatato Seki - Creative Technologist, The Neighbourhood
- Elliott Hall – Creative Technologist and Support Technician, London College of Fashion
Some international students choose to remain in the UK to gain valuable industry experience whilst others return to their home countries to pursue successful careers.
High quality written work on this course is ready to publish in academic and artistic contexts; high quality practice work is regularly exhibited internationally either during or after the course.
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Theories and Technologies of Interaction Design
Collaborative Unit
Explorative Research
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 15 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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Credits
Delivered
Disciplines
User Experience Design View 45 other Masters in User Experience Design in United KingdomWhat students do after studying
Academic requirements
English requirements
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Student insurance
Make sure to cover your health, travel, and stay while studying abroad. Even global coverages can miss important items, so make sure your student insurance ticks all the following:
- Additional medical costs (i.e. dental)
- Repatriation, if something happens to you or your family
- Liability
- Home contents and baggage
- Accidents
- Legal aid
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Other requirements
General requirements
Honours degree (named above);
Possession of equivalent qualifications;
Prior experiential learning, the outcome of which can be demonstrated to be equivalent to formal qualifications otherwise required. Your experience is assessed as a learning process and tutors will evaluate that experience for currency, validity, quality and sufficiency;
Or a combination of formal qualifications and experiential learning which, taken together, can be demonstrated to be equivalent to formal qualifications otherwise required.
Tuition Fee
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International
28570 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 28570 GBP per year during 15 months. -
National
13330 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 13330 GBP per year during 15 months.
Living costs for London
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Funding
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Scholarships Information
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