MA User Experience Design

UX Design promotes human-centred approaches to learning to prepare you for a role in the digital UX professions. As a ‘conversion course’, UX Design is suitable for graduates (or those with equivalent experience) from a range of disciplines and is designed to build on your existing knowledge and skills with the necessary specialist UX knowledge to enter the UX professions.

UX Design as an industry is evolving in response to unprecedented technological change. To enable responsible design practice, UX Design accounts for the relevant social, regulatory and legal, cultural and economic contexts in which digital products, services and experiences are responsibly designed and made available for wide use.

The programme capitalises on its location and culturally rich situation in Manchester to produce culturally literate and contextually aware graduates who can positively contribute to the UX industries. You will graduate as a self-reflexive and contextually aware UX Designer who can positively contribute to the design industries and wider society.

Having acquired the necessary competencies in more UX specialist modules you will be guided through independent projects by staff with the necessary complementary skills and experience to support and challenge you. Our postgraduate community is led by a specialist team of academic staff and includes visiting speakers who are practising designers and researchers.

The postgraduate student experience is designed to provide you with opportunities to develop and demonstrate UX skills and knowledge while establishing professional links across the postgraduate population and with the UX industries.

You should have at least a 2:2 undergraduate UK honours degree, ideally in a creative arts and design discipline such as e.g., Graphic Design; Fashion Communication Design; Illustration; Animation; Games Art and/or Design; Product Design; Filmmaking; Film & Television Production; Creative Film Production; Media Production; Digital Media Production; Sound & Video; Photography.

Equivalent EU/international qualifications are also accepted.

Applicants who do not meet these criteria will be considered on a case-by case basis as other professional qualifications and/or undergraduate UK honours degree subjects will be considered on merit as will relevant professional experience.

Overseas applicants will require IELTS with an overall score of 6.5 with no less than 5.5 in any category, or an equivalent accepted English language qualification.