Master of User Experience Design

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 they could be in a physical space, like wayfinding in a museum. They can also be a complex mixture of both online and offline elements.

UX designers carry out a range of tasks. They:

• understand and frame problems through a variety of research methods
• interpret their findings and prioritise options
• work collaboratively with others to build on their ideas
• develop concepts to solve the problems
• refine those concepts through testing before and after the experience is launched for public use.

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

Our MUXD graduates are currently working in New Zealand and internationally as digital product designers, web designers, UX researchers, UX writers, and service designers.

Entry requirements

To be accepted into this programme you need:

Completed a Bachelor’s degree of a tertiary institution in New Zealand, or an equivalent qualification, with an average grade of at least B

To be accepted by the Head of School as capable of proceeding with the proposed course of study

The first requirement may be waived by the Associate Dean Students (Postgraduate—Taught) of the Wellington Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation for a candidate who has had extensive practical, professional, or scholarly experience of an appropriate kind, equivalent to a Bachelor’s degree.

IELTS (Academic): minimum overall score of 6.5 with no sub-score below 6.0

TOEFL: minimum score of 90 for the internet-based test with a minimum of 20 in writing

Pearson Test of English: minimum score of 58 (with a ‘Communicative’ score of not less than 50)

Victoria University of Wellington English for Academic Purpose (EAP) programme: minimum final scores of 4,4,5,5

Cambridge English Qualifications: C1 Advanced or C2 Proficiency with a score of 176 or higher, with each skill score no less than 169

New Zealand Certificates in English Language (NZCEL): Level 5 (Academic)

NZAPA: English New Zealand Accredited Pathway Assessment Level 3 (with no skill lower than Level 2)