Highlights

• Get prepared for a diverse and agile career in design, technology and innovation.
• Learn the cutting-edge design skills, knowledge and capabilities needed to work across multiple fields, practices and contexts.
• Undertake interaction design studios focusing on industry-leading practices in human centred design, design thinking, experience design, service innovation and augmented reality.
• Embrace opportunities for industry work experience, international study tours and networking with design industry professionals, nationally and internationally.

Why choose this course?

How we interact with our devices, with apps and websites is constantly evolving. As an interaction designer you can shape that evolution. Removing complexity. Making interactions more intuitive. Creating responsive media. In many ways, optimising the experience and putting people at the heart of design.

Real-world learning

Embedded within the course are opportunities for industry work experience through our real-world partnerships such as with the Queensland Art Gallery (QAG), where students recently collaborated to create speculative interface designs to assist visitor engagement and education of the Australian artwork in QAG's collection.

International study tours and networking with design industry professionals nationally and internationally will ensure you graduate with one of the most versatile and contemporary skill sets in the sector.

This course prepares you for diverse and agile career pathways in design, technology and innovation. It focuses on the cutting-edge design skills, knowledge and capabilities needed for a contemporary designer to work across multiple fields, practices and contexts. Your degree will begin with introductory and shared impact lab units where, working with students from other disciplines, you’ll focus on problems and social issues and identify potential solutions connected to industry and community.

You’ll then undertake a series of interaction design studios focusing on industry-leading practices in human-centred design, design thinking, experience design, service innovation and augmented reality. Your studies can be rounded with a second major from architectural studies, industrial design studies, fashion communication, animation, games design, screen content production, advertising or marketing.

Later in your degree you will be able to transfer skills and knowledge to a workplace or professional context and gain practical work experience with work integrated learning.

Careers and outcomes

You will graduate in a growing employment area with career pathways available including web and mobile app design, interface design, user experience (UX) design or interaction (IxD) design, wearable fashion technology, interactive exhibition design, robotics design, communication design, and many more.

Career pathways available to you beyond the design industries include roles in game design, information technology, health, education, science and engineering, as well as business and enterprise including data visualisation, smart home and virtual reality environments.

Possible careers

• Interaction Designer
• Interface Designer
• Mobile App Designer
• Robotics Design
• Usability Expert
• User Experience Designer
• User Researcher
• Visualisation Expert
• Web Designer