Program Description
User Experience and Interaction Design prepares students to be professionals who will change standards by which society communicates and interacts. When one looks at websites, mobile communications devices, graphic user interfaces, or integrated systems, one sees the importance of interaction in communicating a rich media experience. For businesses, success depends on a well-designed, engaging, dynamic and robust user experience. The MS in User Experience and Interaction Design program provides students the necessary skillsets and promotes the critical thinking that is vital to this evolving field.
Learning Goals/Outcomes
- Use principles of design, such as visual organization, information hierarchy, typography, narrative and aesthetics to solve problems
- Plan and design usable sites by collecting data through various methods
- Analyze and evaluate data, plan and execute intuitive interfaces, user experiences and rich interactive designs
- Use equipment, technology and resources that represent current trends in the field
- Analyze and design functional prototypes
- Apply user experience design principle
- Evaluate and respond to user needs and develop solutions to usability problems
- Apply fundamental concepts of Internet and digital marketing including social media and email marketing
- Create and analyze system architecture such as Content Management Systems, web development, user interactions and database development
- Use computer languages, compilers, interpreters and assembler products to produce code and output to meet specifications
- Illustrate an understanding of digital technologies in the creation, production and use of visual communication
- Utilize and synthesize digital tools including software, photography, time-based and interactive media to create effective visual designs
