About BA (hons) User Experience Design in University of the Arts London

BA (Hons) User Experience Design is a practice-led course that focusses on the role interfaces and computational technologies play in shaping contemporary culture. 

You will become skilled in numerous practical and creative design methods that enable you to create informed and experimental user experiences.

What can you expect?

• You will learn to use code, data and other digital materials alongside traditional design methods to realise your creative ambitions.
• This comprehensive design practice will enable you to design, prototype and build user interfaces, data visualisations, responsive installation pieces and other user-driven interactive experiences.
• You will also have the opportunity and support to address emerging technologies such as extended reality (XR), wearable technology, digital fabrication and artificial intelligence within a design context.
• The course encourages a rigorous approach to research, encouraging a deep knowledge of existing digital technologies, platforms and tools - asking how or why they are used and what the resulting personal and social implications are.
• The course prepares students for numerous roles in an emerging and expanding professional field in the creative industries or further post-graduate education.

Work experiences and opportunities

There are opportunities to work on industry and live briefs at different times during your studies.

You will be encouraged to take a critical and experimental approach to briefs reflecting the value young innovative designers provide to industry. You will work with partners from the creative industries as well professionals and experts from various fields that can benefit from user experience design.

The course is in regular contact with businesses in the creative and technology sectors who are recruiting for graduate schemes and junior design roles.

Guest speakers are also regularly invited to come in and provide insight and advice to students. There is an opportunity for a short exchange with a European institution.  

Between Years 2 and 3 of the course, you’ll also have the opportunity to undertake one of the following additional UAL qualifications: 

Diploma in Professional Studies (DPS): An optional, year-long learning opportunity which enables you to develop your professional skills by undertaking a variety of placements and industry experiences. Supported throughout the year by academics, you’ll build on the knowledge gained on your course in a range of national or international locations, and graduate with an additional qualification of Diploma in Professional Studies.

Diploma in Creative Computing: An optional, year-long opportunity which allows you to develop the computational skills that are shaping the future of the digital creative industries. After successfully completing the Diploma and the final year of your undergraduate degree, you’ll graduate with an enhanced degree title: for example, BA (Hons) User Experience Design (with Creative Computing).

Entry requirements

• High School leaving examinations - We will consider any High School leaving examinations that are considered to be the equivalent to A-level examinations in the UK.

English language requirements

• IELTS: 6.0 - 6.5 overall, with no less than 5.5 in each component.
• TOEFL iBT: 80 - 90 overall.
• PTE Academic: 51 - 58 (with no less than 51 in each component).

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