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.