About the Program
The User Experience Design Major prepares students to work as expert designers of human-centered technology interactions, products, services, and experiences. Students are given foundational knowledge of web development, interaction programming, and graphics principles to enable them to develop, evaluate, and iterate on usable digital prototypes suitable for conversion into full scale products and services. Our students develop advanced skills in design methods, such as interviews, focus groups, participatory design, competitive analysis, system evaluation, human factors, and ergonomics. These skills prepare our students to provide superior value to technology design teams of all scales.
The UX program features two core course strands. Our Learning Series of courses introduce human centered design methods, web development, multi-device systems, and advanced system evaluation methods. These courses engage students in multiple rounds of project based group work, preparing them to work in cross functional teams. The series culminates in a specialization course in which students identify and execute individual work demonstrating some differentiating expertise such as health technologies, educational technologies, e-commerce technologies, expressive technologies, etc.
Our students are free to develop unique expertise in interdisciplinary topics through free and technical electives. Our students learn the fundamentals of how machine learning and computer vision AI systems work and how they are embedded in every day technologies, manufacturing, and enterprise systems. Our students also learn how to effectively assess, leverage, and manage generative AI tools that they may encounter in the workplace.
Our Experience studio series pairs teams of students with real industry projects, supporting their professional development and helping them build connections to industry that will support them after graduation.
The UX Design major is part of the Computer Graphics Technology program in the School of Applied and Creative Computing. The Computer Graphics Technology program is accredited by the Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission of ABET,
www.abet.org.
UX Design Website
UX Design Major Change (CODO) Requirements
World Language Courses
World Language proficiency requirements vary by program. The following list is inclusive of all world languages PWL offers for credit; for acceptable languages and proficiency levels, see your advisor. (ASL-American Sign Language; ARAB-Arabic; CHNS-Chinese; FR-French; GER-German; GREK-Greek(Ancient); HEBR-Hebrew(Biblical); HEBR-Hebrew(Modern); ITAL-Italian; JPNS-Japanese; KOR-Korean; LATN-Latin; PTGS-Portuguese; RUSS-Russian; SPAN-Spanish)
Critical Course
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