User Experience Design

User experience design is the practice of designing digital products and services around the needs, behaviours, and expectations of the people who will use them. It encompasses user research, information architecture, interaction design, prototyping, and usability testing, asking at every stage how a product can be made more intuitive, more useful, and more satisfying to use. As organisations across every sector have come to understand that the quality of digital experience is a critical competitive and social factor, the demand for skilled UX practitioners has grown substantially.

At the University of the Arts London, this three-year full-time programme trains you in the full range of user experience design methods and practices, developing both the research and analytical skills needed to understand users and the design skills needed to create interfaces and interactions that work well for them. The programme includes a sandwich year and work placement provision, giving you substantial professional experience in design or technology organisations before you graduate. The typical entry tariff is 136 UCAS points.

Graduates work as UX designers, interaction designers, service designers, product designers, and UX researchers in technology companies, digital agencies, financial services, healthcare organisations, public sector bodies, and any other organisation that is serious about the quality of its digital products and services. The skills developed in this discipline are in strong and growing demand, and the combination of design thinking, research competence, and digital production capability makes graduates attractive across a wide range of employers. Many graduates also continue to postgraduate study in interaction design, service design, or human-computer interaction.