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    MA Full-time: 12 months
    MA Part-time: 36 months

Course Description

This course will give you the skills and understanding to design technology driven experiences that inspire and delight.

If you’re looking to study design in Scotland, study design in Edinburgh the capital city. The MA Design for Interactive Experience course draws from design and visual arts to understand how to create unforgettable interactions between people and technology. 

In this innovative course, you will learn applied and theoretical approaches for designing interactivity for everyday experience. Drawing from a range of disciplines including user experience, interactive art and interaction design you will learn an approach to designing across and between the physical and digital. In this way you will establish how you can develop new means for interacting with information, creative outputs, and brands, contributing to our modern experience driven economy.

Entry Requirements

The entry requirement for this course is a Bachelor (Honours) Degree at 2:2 or above in any discipline.

We may also consider lesser qualifications if you have sufficient professional work experience within the industry.

This course has academic entry requirements which are assessed alongside relevant work experience. Full details of any relevant work experience, including references should be submitted with your application and may be considered for entry where the minimum academic entry requirements are below those required.

Usually, unrelated work experience is not considered sufficient for entry without meeting the minimum academic entry requirements. Please contact us with your specific circumstances by submitting an enquiry form and we will be happy to discuss your options.

If you want to get more information on the admission process, please get in touch with the Postgraduate admissions team by submitting an enquiry form.

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Student Destinations

As well as using their entrepreneurial skills to develop their own career paths, graduates from this programme can expect to find work in:

  • Exhibition, museum, and interpretation design 
  • Interaction Design 
  • Service Design 
  • User Experience  
  • Immersive and Interactive Art 
  • Design for mixed reality

Module Details

Modules that you will study* as part of this course:

  • Art Direction ( DES11146 )
  • Creative Research Portfolio Part 1 ( DES11155 )
  • Creative Research Portfolio Part 2 ( DES11156 )
  • Design for Heritage and Culture ( DES11137 )
  • Light Art & Projection ( DES11122 )
  • Research and Entrepreneurship Projects ( DES11144 )
  • Research as Critical Practice ( DES11143 )
  • Sketching in Hardware & Software ( DES11106 )

* These are indicative only and reflect the course structure in the current academic year. Some changes may occur between now and the time that you study.

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