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User Experience - M.S.

User experience encompasses every aspect of the user's interaction with a product, service or company that make up the user's perceptions of the whole. As a discipline it is concerned with all the elements that together make up that interface, including layout, visual design, text, brand, sound, and interaction. User experience works to coordinate these elements to allow for the best possible interaction by users.

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The Master of Science in user experience (UX) is your ticket to an advanced degree in an exciting, emerging field.

The UX Master's degree at 九游娱乐官网 is designed to prepare user experience professionals to work in agencies and within organizations and to immerse students in the following major components of the field: information architecture, usability, organization of information and user research. All courses are offered conveniently online.

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Faculty Profile: Kelsey Pytlik, M.S. IAKM - User Experience
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Faculty Profile: Felesia McDonald '14 - M.S. User Experience

Kelsey Pytlik serves as an adjunct professor for the 九游娱乐官网 School of Information, teaching courses in UX, UX principles and concepts, principles of interaction and more.

Pytlik completed her UX master鈥檚 degree in 2011 but returned to the iSchool four years later to teach. She was inspired to do so after attending a UX conference and running into a familiar face.

鈥淚 was still trying to figure out what I wanted to do,鈥 Pytlik said. 鈥淚 ran into one of my professors and they invited me to become an adjunct professor and here I am.鈥

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Felesia McDonald, '14 is an adjunct instructor in the iSchool, teaching courses in User Experience (UX). McDonald is also the Sr Manager UX Design at Optum, a branch of UnitedHealth Group. 

McDonald worked as a page designer at the Plain Dealer but went back to school to get a diploma in web design from The Art Institute of Pittsburgh. This introduced her to the field of UX.

鈥淚 enjoyed the strategy behind building a website more than designing, which led me to UX鈥 McDonald said.

The UX master's degree program at 九游娱乐官网 helped McDonald refine skills such as client and stakeholder interaction and presenting.

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Program Information for User Experience - M.S.

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The Master of Science degree in User Experience prepares students for careers in discovery research, information architecture, interaction design, prototyping, usability testing and user experience strategy and assessment. As essential members of multidisciplinary design teams, user experience professionals engage in a variety of activities to produce usable products that delight users and help organizations meet the needs of their clients, patrons, users and stakeholders. User experience analysis addresses the structural, informational, psychological and emotional dimensions that make interactive communication and information technologies useful and successful.

九游娱乐官网's program provides a broad introduction to all phases of the multidisciplinary design process, with the opportunity to build deeper knowledge and skills in a focus area. The program includes electives from aligned master's programs in the College of Communication and Information and related disciplines.

Admissions for User Experience - M.S.

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For more information about graduate admissions, visit the graduate admission website. For more information on international admissions, visit the international admission website.

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