Human Centered Design Manipal Academy of Higher Education

Overview

The Human Centered Design , B.Des course from Manipal Academy of Higher Education involves designing systems, services, spaces, and products to facilitate meaningful interactions and experiences between people, designed interactions, and the natural environment. With critical-making practices, you’ll engage with complexity and ideate, tinker, play, and express using digital technology. Upon graduation, you will be able to apply your skills in various industries, including MNCs, startups, and R&D centres in India and abroad. These roles may involve the development of technology-based products, interfaces, and services as you take the steps to become a leader in strategic design thinking and innovation.

Career opportunities:

The above-mentioned capability sets could lead to opportunities such as:

• Employment in the Information Technology industry with a focus on user experience, user interface and experience design.
• Employment in design studios, R&D, and product development teams in small and large companies focusing on novel, cutting-edge interaction and interactive product design.
• Employment in start-ups, small and medium enterprises, NGOs & social enterprises focusing on both product design and service-system design.

Furthermore, we set a platform to develop an individual practice towards pushing the social, cultural, economic and political status quo about the role that digital technology could and should play in our lives. We expect the learners to push organizations or build organizations from the ground up that are accountable and responsible for the things they design.