A range of skills

User experience (UX) design focuses on how people interact with, and experience products and services. These experiences could be on a screen, like a website or an app, or in a physical space, like wayfinding in a museum. And, these can be a mixture of both, and quite complex. Consider the experience of travel: researching, then booking a flight online, checking-in, boarding the flight, flying, landing, collecting luggage and leaving the airport.

 

UX designers carry out a range of tasks: they understand and frame problems through user research and analysis; they interpret findings and prioritise options; they develop concepts to solve the problems, and refine those concepts through testing before and after the experience is launched for public use.

 

UX designers are skilled researchers, critical and creative thinkers, effective communicators, and make a variety of design outputs.

 

Conversion degree

The Master of User Experience Design (MUXD) is a 12-month 180-point Master’s degree. It's a conversion degree aimed at industry professionals and recent graduates, you don’t have to have an undergraduate Design degree to apply. Recently our students have come from a range of fields including graphic design, journalism, advertising, computer science, software engineering, teaching, government policy, architecture, psychology, industrial design and anthropology. The degree builds on skills developed during professional careers and undergraduate study.

 

MUXD graduates are currently working in New Zealand and internationally as digital product designers, UX/UI designers, UX researchers, and service designers.