User Experience Design (Hons)

Overview

Rooted in design skills

You will share your first year with students from our three highly-regarded graphics courses, giving you a firm grounding in idea generation, problem solving, visual design and research methods.

Industry-ready UX skills

During the User Experience Design programme of the Norwich University of the Arts you will learn how to work with the commercial sector through contact with external businesses via live briefs, UX design agencies and a student-led consultancy.

The project management, communication and collaborative working skills you develop will make your CV and portfolio stand out to employers.

What you will learn

• Share your first year, and then continue to work alongside graphics students, allowing for a unique cross fertilisation of knowledge, skills and experience

• Develop skills in visual design, problem solving, idea generation, research and user testing, iterative design, coding and psychology

• Through UX design, research and testing, create designs for screen applications and web technologies

• Collaborate with others in a competitive presentation and/or pitch environment, and take part in projects, including competition briefs and other professionally-focused projects

• Complete a research report that puts your practice in context.

Typical career paths include

• User Interface Designer

• UX Designer

• Interaction Designer

• Digital Designer

• Visual Designer

• Product Manager

• UX Design Manager

• Front End Developer

• Digital Web Designer

• UX Architect

• UX Business Analyst

• Product Marketing Manager