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Interaction Design (120 Credits) – (M.Sc.)
Malmö University
Master Studies
| Application Deadline: | 16th January | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | Free - ≈ € 17,940 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Malmö / Sweden / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 24 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Credits (ECTS): | 120 | ||
| Languages: | English | ||
Location of Malmö University
This programme prepares you to work as an interaction designer by giving you the necessary (co)design skills to design for interactions.
The purpose of the programme is to explore new ideas concerning digital artefacts and media. It is practical and experimental. Interaction design is the process of designing with digital materials. In this process an interaction designer focuses on the user and the many aspects of specific use situations.
Central aspects of this training include: Hands-on prototyping, design-oriented ethnographic fieldwork, staging cross-disciplinary collaboration and reflection of use qualities.
This programme is international and multidisciplinary with students and staff from many different countries and design-related backgrounds. During the first year, you receive studio-, team- and project-based training in designing settings, services, systems and detailed digital and interactive solutions for interactions. Examples include mobile and physical computing, place-centric computing, gamingservice design, social media and interactive, critical arts.
During the second year, you specialize in, explore and reflect upon a topic of your interest and complete your work portfolio.
Potential working fields include IT, design and media industries. You will also have the skills to start your own design-related company, work as a teacher in the field or pursue PhD-studies.
Students enter the programme with different kinds of expertise, from art and design to engineering and social sciences. Upon graduation, you will have built a strong understanding of how your particular skills play a role in interaction design and how they combine with other specialities of fellow designers.
Potential positions
Most alumni move on to positions as interaction designers, user experience specialists or usability architects in the ICT, telecom and media industries. For some, this involves finetuning the interfaces and interactions of current products to users' needs; other interaction designers work on concept development for future products and services. Yet other alumni find their calling in strategic positions where the role of interaction design is considered in relation to market and business development.
Some interaction designers are also found in the role of change agents in public organizations and NGOs.
Connections to world-class research
Finally, thanks to the close connections to world-class research, the programme prepares its graduates to enter academic research institutes. A fair number of alumni have moved on to PhD studies and positions as university teachers and researchers, in Sweden as well as abroad.
Contents
The programme comprises full-time study for two academic years.
Year 1
The first year is divided into four courses starting with a studio-based introduction to multidisciplinary collaboration and mainstream interaction design. The next two courses address embodied interaction and collaborative media, two of our signature topics. The final course is a Master’s level graduation project.
* Introduction to multidisciplinary interaction design, 15 credits
* Embodied interaction, 15 credits
* Collaborative media, 15 credits
* Graduation project, 15 credits
Year 2
Syllabus for year 2 will be published here December 3rd.
Teaching Methods
The programme is generally based on a studio learning-by-doing approach, which to us means an iterative, intertwining practice of experimentation and reflection. As teachers we view ourselves as coaches guiding you in this process.
Working environments
Each year has their own studio, available around the clock. The class makes the studio their own. Here we have group-work, seminars, workshops, presentations, discussions, etc.The studios have projectors, cabinets of diverse working materials, lots of white boards, flexible furniture, etc. Close by there are various well-equipped workshops and the physical-computing Arduino-lab.Additionally, we often use the facilities at MEDEA research centre for final presentations, exhibitions, seminars, programme-meetings, etc. Images from studios and labs (link)
Collaboration with the "real world"
Design is a collaborative process, where users and other stakeholders contribute their expertise and values to the joint task of shaping future things, services, media and spaces. We routinely use participatory design methods to master the complexities of conflicting agendas and goals in real-world design situations.
A privilege of the designer is the license to question the given task and go beyond thetaken-for-granted. We place great emphasis on exploring and assessing innovative design concepts, as opposed to incrementally improving existing artifacts to solve existing problems.
Who are you?
Interaction design requires the fusion of multiple skill sets. We recruit students with different backgrounds—design, media, engineering, the arts, and social sciences—and focus our teaching on creating disciplinary synergy in the concrete design work.
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
1. Degree of Bachelor or equivalent in subjects relevant for interaction design. Examples of relevant subjects include, but are not limited to: computer science,
informatics, information systems, human-computer interaction, new media arts,
fine arts, design (industrial, product, graphic, interaction), communication studies,
media studies and cognitive science.
2. Approval of the following submitted material: 2 x work samples of previous
relevant work and an individual response to the application assignment, available
on the Malmö University web site:
3. General eligibility + the equivalent of English course B in Swedish higher
secondary school.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.5 |
| TOEFL Paper-based: | 575 |
| TOEFL Internet-based: | 90 |
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