Program Overview

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BA (Hons) User-Experience and User-Interface Design

Course Overview

The BA (Hons) User-Experience and User-Interface Design program is a three-year course that focuses on the design of future-facing digital platforms, products, and services. The course explores the fundamentals of user research, experience design, interaction design, visual design, and information architecture.

Why Study This Degree?

• Develop a multidisciplinary design and digital skillset
• Understand user behavior and design products and services that optimize the user's experience
• Develop a portfolio based on user-centered research and design experimentation
• Design products and services that optimize user experience
• Learn from the best minds in the industry and tap into exceptional industry connections

Key Study Topics

• User research
• Experience design
• Interaction design
• Visual design
• Information architecture
• Design thinking
• Human-centered design and technology

Year 1

This design-led introduction explores core competencies in graphic and information design and in design and coding for the web.

Modules include:

• Understanding Users
• Creative Coding
• Exploring Experience
• Making Machines
• Professional Life Practice: "Developing your Practice"
• Professional Life Practice: "Exploring your Practice"

Year 2

Year 2 explores more advanced interactivity through play and experimentation in coding. Encouraging a personal approach, the course enables and supports the application of both individual and group design propositions to real-world and imagined scenarios.

Modules include:

• Insight Interaction
• Immersive Worlds
• Expanding Experience
• Professional Life Practice: "Applying your Practice"
• Work-based learning

Year 3

The culmination of three years of study is channeled into practical projects, which become increasingly professional in scope.

A range of self-directed projects along with a major project of the final body of work forms the third year of study. Final work is appropriate to applied contexts within the creative industries.

Modules include:

• Creative Impact
• Major Project
• Professional Life Practice: "Situating your Practice"
• Hello World

Entry Requirements

• Two A Levels at grade CC or above
• BTEC Extended Diploma at grade MPP
• UAL Level 3 Extended Diploma
• T Level (pass or above)
• Access to Higher Education Diploma
• International Baccalaureate at grade 24 or above
• Other/Mixed qualifications equivalent to 64 UCAS Tariff points

Selection Criteria

We will consider a wide range of applicants who show creativity and curiosity in the areas of design, technology, research, and more specifically digital experiences and interfaces. You do not need to have any coding or specific design software knowledge to be considered for the course.

Interview and Portfolio

Admission onto this course is also subject to successful completion of an interview and portfolio (or showreel).

Your portfolio may include:

• App and website design
• Posters/books/other print-based projects
• Experiments with code and programming
• Working with materials and technology
• Games design projects
• Photography, video, animation, media projects
• Fine arts projects
• Relevant academic work in social science subjects

Career Pathway

UX/UI designers are in huge demand from industry across all sectors helping to define and create the future products, services, and experiences people want and enjoy.

Graduates will find work in a number of roles such as UX designer, UX researcher, UI designer, interaction designer, service designer, visual designer, and creative technologist.

Industry Connections

You can't learn in a vacuum. At Ravensbourne University London, industry connection is ingrained into everything we do. We will equip you for success in the creative and digital industries, ensuring you are truly industry-ready upon graduation.

Fees and Funding

Find out more about our tuition fees and whether you qualify for financial support during your studies.

Lecturers

• Alyas Latif, BA (Hons) Dip MA Arch
• Cecilia Mezzi, BA, MA, FHEA
• Blanca Regina, BA, MA, PhD

Facilities

Our facilities are open to every student. One of the best things about our facilities is that they are open to all students no matter what course they are studying.

• Print shop
• Prototyping suite
• iMac suite
• Materials library
• Library
• Kit Store

Unistats Details

• 71% say staff value students' views and opinions about the course
• 87% of students say teaching staff have supported their learning well
• 84% in work or doing further study 15 months after the course