University
Victoria University of WellingtonThis course is available
On-Campus, Online
Level of Study
Master's Degree
Duration
12 months
Next start date
Expected Feb 2025
Campus
Kelburn Campus
Boost your professional value with versatile skills in a fast-growing sector. The MUXD equips you to create compelling user experiences, even if you don’t have a design background.
A range of skills
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 in a physical space, like wayfinding in a museum. And, these can be a mixture of both, and quite complex. Consider the experience of travel: researching, then booking a flight online, checking-in, boarding the flight, flying, landing, collecting luggage and leaving the airport.
UX designers carry out a range of tasks: they understand and frame problems through user research and analysis; they interpret findings and prioritise options; they develop concepts to solve the problems, and refine those concepts through testing before and after the experience is launched for public use.
Conversion degree
The Master of User Experience Design (MUXD) is a 12-month 180-point Master’s degree. It's a conversion degree aimed at industry professionals and recent graduates, you don’t have to have an undergraduate Design degree to apply. Recently our students have come from a range of fields, including graphic design, journalism, advertising, computer science, software engineering, teaching, government policy, architecture, psychology, industrial design, and anthropology. Whatever your professional or academic background, this degree will build on your existing skills.
Duration and workload
The programme starts in the first trimester. You’ll complete your Master’s in one year of full-time study spread over three trimesters: March to June, July to October, and November to February.
Bachelor's degree with a B average or above
Proof of English proficiency
To be accepted into this programme you will need one of the following:
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)
EAP: minimum final scores of 4,4,5,5
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