User Experience (UX) Design MA

Become a confident and daring indie game developer, producing vibrant and engaging experiences for gamers. Analyse the principles of the creative process, from ideation and design through to delivery and dissemination. Integrate design tools, programming languages, game engines, as well as specialist middleware and frameworks into your game development practice.

Explore business models used by indie games studios to see but usually you’ll need an undergraduate degree in learning outcomes of our minimum entry qualifications. there is a £200 application fee for entry with advanced standing or with exemption from specific modules or credit

how you could start up your own. And, if you already have a business idea, get it off the ground with help from a mentor.

Why study here?

Design and implement digital and non-digital games Apply the principles of design and creativity to generate fun and playful experiences Learn to use industry-standard platforms for making games and adapt to their technical constraints Apply primary and secondary research methods drawn from game studies and the broader design science literature Collaborate across disciplinary boundaries, an increasingly important skill in the games industry

Assessment method

100% coursework, including assessments such as projects, portfolios,

Modules could include:

Development Practice Game Development Co-creative Design and Development Practice Indie Game Start-Up Final Major Project

Entry requirements

We welcome applicants with varied qualifications, computing, software engineering, game programming or related fields You’ll also need experience of computer programming (i.e. presence on GitHub and/or StackExchange, source code excerpts, technical reports, etc) Our typical applicants hold an undergraduate degree of 2:2 or above, or equivalent experience We’ll also welcome your application if you have formal or ‘certified’ learning (such as training courses not run by universities or colleges) and learning from work experience or self-study. This is called Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL), and should have been gained within the last five years, and be equivalent to the APL applicants using experience to apply should note pitches and papers

Department: Games Academy Course title: User Experience (UX) Design MA Location: Online Course duration: Two years

Learn how to apply key principles of user-centered design to create original artefacts based on your own intellectual property. Get practical skills in how to evaluate artifacts and development processes in an ongoing and iterative way.

Use human-computer interaction research methods to evaluate the user’s needs and improve the experiences you create for them. Learn how user-centered design can be applied in areas such as the Internet of Things, creative apps, museum installations, educational technology, and immersive business.

Why study here?

Explore how to innovate as a user experience designer Learn methods from experimental psychology and data science to better understand how people engage with digital products and services Practice interaction design across a range of application domains, including cybersecurity You’ll also be able to keep and control any IP interfaces you produce

Assessment method

Modules could include:

Development Practice UX Design Co-creative Design and Development Practice UX Research Final Major Project

Entry requirements

We welcome applications from those with relevant equivalent Level 6 qualifications. Our typical applicants hold an undergraduate degree of 2:2 or above, or equivalent experience and a demonstrable interest in the subject We’ll also welcome your application if you have formal or ‘certified’ learning (such as training courses not run by universities or colleges) and learning from work experience or self-study. This is called Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL), and should have been gained within the last five years, and be equivalent to the learning outcomes of our minimum entry qualifications APL applicants using experience to apply should note there is a £200 application fee for entry with advanced standing or with exemption from specific modules or credit 100% coursework, including projects, portfolios, pitches and papers