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Why Study Digital Media Design at UL?

The future of design is digital. Whether it’s a watch that tracks every step you take or sensors embedded in our clothing: every part of our lives are shaped by technology. The degree in Digital Media Design provides you with the skills and knowledge to think creatively about how we interact with the technologies that surround us and to develop designs that are people-centred in innovative ways.

The field of Interaction Design and User Experience is always evolving. The degree in Digital Media Design will provide you with the skills to design engaging interactive experiences for users with technologies. You will work with real-world design cases and gain insight into the industry from our design partners, as well as cultural and civic organisations.

Working as an Interaction Designer means continuously evolving with the needs of users and developments in emerging technologies - this requires critical and creative thinking.

We help you develop essential skills to identify and respond to people’s needs, using a number of people-centred design methods. We help our students to understand what people want and how to design suitable interfaces and interactions with technologies. We encourage creativity and reflective design by teaching research skills and supporting students in active research projects. We develop designers who can explore existing and emerging technologies in a meaningful way. Our students have access to cutting-edge hardware, software and the support of expert lecturers and technicians, for multiple purposes including:

- Prototyping apps on mobile platforms (e.g. Arduino)

- Producing screen-based content with creative software (e.g. Adobe, Processing, Sketch, Final Cut Pro)

- Building interactive objects with physical computing (e.g. Arduino, Raspberry Pi)

- Exploring interactive programming (e.g. Processing, HTML, Javascript).

Entry route to Digital Media Design at UL is via LM122 Creative Media and Interaction Design Common Entry.

The BSc in Digital Media Design is a unique course that provides its students with a combination of essential skills for thinking, understanding and designing FOR people WITH technology. Graduates emerge with the critical and creative expertise to design meaningful interactions for people. The course includes an industry placement and focuses on how to design through an iterative practice of experimentation and reflection

Topics include:

- User-Centred Design

- Participatory Design

- Product Design

- Mobile App Design

- Physical Computing

- Coding

- Sociology of People and Media

- Prototyping and User Research

By the end of this course you will have skills and insight to design meaningful experiences and interactions with technologies, tools that centre around people.

Careers open to you with a degree in Digital Media Design include;

• Interaction Designer
• User Experience Designer
• User Interface Designer
• Usability Expert
• Digital Product Designer
• Design Consultant
• Service Designer
• Frontend UI Designer
• User Researcher
• Design Ethnography

Graduates from this course will be equipped to create and develop interactive multimedia projects. They will have acquired a sophisticated understanding of the aesthetic and technical issues involved. There is an increasing need for graduates with the ability to cross social and technical boundaries, in order to exploit the opportunities offered by computer technology in a range of industries and services such as recording, general media, broadcasting and education.