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Prepare for a role in the digital UX professions, crafting accessible, easy and enjoyable to use digital products, services and experiences.
As more businesses invest in digital transformation, public sector and central government services are accessed digitally ‘by default’, e-retail outgrows physical high street sales, and a multiplicity of digital services and experiences – for entertainment, sociality and wellbeing – are used by the majority of the population on a daily basis, the need for digital User Experience (UX) specialists will only continue to grow.
The MA User Experience Design introduces you to the necessary core principles of UX Design through lectures, seminars and hands-on studio projects, therefore no prior knowledge of UX Design is required. You will participate in a co-creation module that challenges you to harness your creative, collaborative and critical skills in articulating issu...
1 year full-time
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.
Whether you've already made your decision about what you want to study, or you're just considering whether postgraduate study is right for you, there are lots of ways you can meet us and find out more about postgraduate student life at Manchester Met.
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Your studies are supported by a department of committed and enthusiastic teachers and researchers, experts in their chosen field.
We often link up with external professionals too, helping to enhance your learning and build valuable connections to the working world.
These typical entry requirements may be subject to change for the 2025/26 academic year. Please check back for further details.
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.
Fees for this course have yet to be confirmed and will be updated shortly.
Fees for this course have yet to be confirmed and will be updated shortly.
A masters qualification typically comprises 180 credits, a PGDip 120 credits, a PGCert 60 credits, and an MFA 300 credits. Tuition fees will remain the same for each year of study provided the course is completed in the normal timeframe (no repeat years or breaks in study).
Optional estimate: £1,100
A laptop c.£1000+ would be useful but is not mandatory as hardware can be borrowed/hired from SODA. We recommend that all students purchase an external hard drive to back up their work on a regular basis. These are under £100.
Optional estimate: £150 - £300
The School of Digital Arts organises regular optional trips both across the United Kingdom and abroad of which at least one annually will be designed with UX Design student in mind. Limited free places may be available for eligible students.
The MA in UX Design specifically benefits by building on the School of Digital Arts’ relationship with leading industry partners. This ensures that you have the technical know-how to launch a career in the UX industries and graduate with industry-ready skills.
Our UX graduates work in UX teams across a wide range of sectors, from telecoms and wider utilities, financial services (banking and investment companies), consultancies and accountancy and the public sector, including local government, to smaller independent creative studios and agencies. We believe that while businesses and governments continue to invest in digital transformation the need for Digital UX specialists will only continue to grow.
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Our programmes undergo an annual review and major review (normally
at 6 year intervals) to ensure an up-to-date curriculum supported by the
latest online learning technology. For further information on when we
may make changes to our programmes, please see the changes section of our
terms and conditions.
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