Design for Interactive Experience

Design for Interactive Experience from Edinburgh Napier University attracts applicants with backgrounds in design, visual arts, computing, and engineering.

Quick Facts:

• 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 interactiondesign 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.
• This course is constructed from core modules that will give you the skills and knowledge to design for creative experiences.

• This course takes a human centred design approach to incorporating technology into everyday experience in a meaningful way. Our graduates learn a critical approach to designing with technology. We explore how and why interaction can contribute to an engaging and satisfying experience and use experience design as a method to critique and respond to current issues
• This course is led by staff from Edinburgh Napier University’s Design Photography and Advertising group. Our permanent staff are actively involved in cutting edge research in the fields they teach, contributing to conferences, journals and books as well as gallery exhibitions and products for visitor experiences. Module teaching is augmented through contributions from professionals working in the field.

Your future career:

As well as using their entrepreneurial skills to develop their own career paths, graduates from this program 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.

Courses include:

• Design for Heritage and Culture
• Light Art & Projection
• Art Direction
• Research Portfolio for Creative Practice
• Research and Entrepreneurship Projects
• Sketching in Hardware & Software