BSc (Hons) User Experience Design with Professional Practice Year

UCA’s BSc (Hons) User Experience Design degree combines strong creative practice with technical skills to help you become an expert in this ever-growing field.

User Experience blends multidisciplinary skills and research methodologies to help design interactions between humans and objects. This includes websites, digital products and services, augmented reality, virtual and mixed reality experiences, wearable technology, and apps.

This course will underpin the extensive development of your academic and theoretical knowledge of the global value and potential of user experience design. Your studies will focus on the fundamental principles and cornerstones of the industry, including user research, experience design, interaction design, visual design and information architecture.

Along the way, you'll develop a broad skillset, design services and products both individually and in teams, build an industry-ready portfolio and get ready for a career in an area of industry that has growing job opportunities and scope.

As part of the course, you'll benefit from a professional placement – or a Professional Practice Year, if you choose that pathway – and build industry-relevant skills to ensure that you graduate ready for the workplace.