Interaction Design University of Limerick

Overview

This  Interaction Design course from the University of Limerick  will provide you with the skills to design engaging interactive experiences for users building on new technologies. You will work with real-world design cases and gain insight into the industry from our design partners, as well as cultural and civic organisations.

Working as an Interaction Designer means continuously evolving with the needs of users and developments in emerging technologies - this requires critical and creative thinking.

We help you develop essential skills to identify and respond to people’s needs, using a number of people-centred design methods. We help our students to understand what people want and how to design suitable interfaces and interactions working with technologies. We encourage creativity and reflective design by teaching research skills and supporting students in active research projects. We develop designers who can explore existing and emerging technologies in a meaningful way. Our students have access to cutting-edge hardware, software and the support of expert lecturers and technicians, for multiple purposes, including:

• Prototyping apps on mobile platforms (e.g. Android)
• Producing screen-based content with creative software (e.g. Adobe, Processing, Figma, Sketch, Final Cut Pro)
• Building interactive objects with physical computing (e.g. Arduino, Raspberry Pi)
• Exploring interactive programming (e.g. Processing, HTML, CSS, Javascript).

Career opportunities:

Graduates progressing directly into employment take up a wide variety of roles. The following provides a sample of initial roles listed on the Graduate Outcomes Survey by graduates approximately one year after graduation:

• Communication Designer
• Digital Content Producer
• Digital Marketing Executive and Content Creator
• Freelance Designer
• Freelance Digital Designer
• Freelance Media Production
• Front-end Designer
• Interaction Designer
• Motion Graphics Designer
• Product Designer
• Social Media Strategist
• UI Designer
• User Researcher
• UX Designer
• Video Editor
• Visual Designer