Digital Experience Design (Hons)

Overview

Digital experience design includes related fields such as service design, user experience design and interaction design. It involves understanding human behaviour and human computer interaction, conducting research and usability studies, managing projects and working in teams, applying business skills, working with existing and emerging digital technologies, prototyping new ideas and anticipating future trends.

In this Digital Experience Design (Hons) program at George Brown College, students will develop the ability to critically analyze and adapt to ever-changing conditions of technology and culture. Foundational courses build students’ analytical, technical and business skills. In upper-year courses and capstone projects, students collaborate on digital interfaces and applications, as well as interactive environments and objects.

This design degree curriculum focuses on three areas of learning based on the digital experience design process:

• Think: design thinking, theory, culture and research
• Make: designing, building and testing digital experiences
• Ship: entrepreneurship and the commercialization of digital products

Careers

Graduates of this program will have acquired the skills necessary to be employed in design and digital media studios, creative labs, in-house design and digital departments within larger corporations across sectors, or to work independently or in a start-up.

This program prepares graduates for positions such as:

• Digital Experience Designer
• User Experience Designer
• User Interface Designer
• Human Interface Designer
• Interaction Designer
• Information Architect
• Digital Designer
• Digital Product Designer
• Visual Designer
• Mobile Designer
• Web Designer
• User Experience Researcher
• Usability Tester
• Entrepreneur