MSc in Creative Digital Media & UX draft

Program Overview

The MSc in Creative Digital Media & UX from TU Dublin focuses on providing practical skills in digital media technologies, including UX design, mobile app development, and AR/VR production. The program prepares graduates for careers in web and mobile design, UX design, and digital media consulting. It is open to students from various backgrounds, including media, art, design, and computer science.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

The MSc in Creative Digital Media & UX is a taught conversion Masters course run by the School of Media at TU Dublin, City Campus. The course provides a thorough grounding in the core skills and knowledge of digital media technologies and offers specialist production techniques that equip graduates with a valuable set of technical and design skills that remain highly relevant to a range digital media industries. The course is designed to advance students' employment potential and addresses the specific needs of employment in the digital media industry. It is also suitable as a foundation for pursuing a career in digital media research. A fundamental benefit of this programme is the exposure students receive to multiple rounds of design, production and testing cycles in both the taught elements and in the self-realised Major Project. These hands-on experiences in design thinking result in the students producing functional apps that are pragmatic, grounded and user oriented from the outset. Meeting, understanding and designing to solve real-world development challenges give our graduates the skills to join design and development teams in a variety of roles and the confidence to lead end-to-end UX solutions for their products.

Outline:

Semester 1

Semester 1 is comprised of core modules for all students in the areas of software development, graphic design and production design. Certain modules may be added, changed, removed or updated depending on resources and industry demand.

• Authoring Principles
• Design Practice
• VR & AR Applications
• Ludology & Gameplay
• Production & Prototyping

Semester 2

The semester 2 modules extend student learning toward the skills and understanding needed to plan and develop a major project. As above, this module pool may be altered year by year.

• Project Development & UX Treatment
• Social Media Applications
• User Interaction Design

Semester 3

Though Semester 3 begins in September we find the most successful students will have used the summer break to gain technical competence with their chosen development platform. That done, those students are better placed to make the most of the supervision meetings in semester 3, and are able to actively tune their artefact based on user feedback and UX best practice.

• Major Project and Report

Careers:

Graduates of the programme can pursue careers as:

• Web and content designers and developers
• iPhone, Android, mobile application designers
• AR/VR designers and developers
• UX designers
• Project managers
• Digital media consultants
• Media analysts and content creators
Over the course of the programme, students will develop novel digital media content, for mobile and tablet devices. With the range of multi-disciplinary talent within the class, graduates will find themselves working with others on new and innovative ideas that will broaden their skill set across a number of areas such as:
• Creative Digital Media
• Mobile and Tablet Application Design
• Interaction Design
• Mobile and Web Applications
• Information Design
• AR/VR Design and Development
• Avanade
• Cenitex
• Deloitte Digital
• Elsevier
• IBM
• JP Morgan
• Merative
• Udemy
• Unity

Other:

The MSc in Creative Digital Media & UX is ideally suited to graduates of diverse disciplines including media, art, design, and computer science. The course is also suited to educators, engineers, architects and design practitioners who may require upskilling in digital media production techniques. Our typical student mix is 1/3 computing, 1/3 design, 1/3 non-digital media. This ensures a vibrant mix of backgrounds and encourages a broad range of ideas for the major projects. The course also caters to graduates who want to transition into the digital media space in particular to those wishing to specialize in areas such as VR/AR Development, Mobile & Web App Development and Interactive Media. A key differentiator with this course is that you will build and test the artefact you design. Feedback from our graduates flags this as a high value element of the MSc in CDM&UX. It provides a thorough grounding in the principles of digital media design and development while at the same time mixes cognate disciplines and levels through innovative team projects, facilitating peer learning and building interdisciplinary awareness, vital to success in any digital media environment.

• Total Fee: €8,150
• Non-EU Total Fee: €20,250