Digital Experience Design

Starts September and February
English
30 ECTS
5 months

Eindhoven

Are you ready to shape the future of how we connect with those we cherish? Imagine making choices, from the mundane to the monumental, more intuitive with your designs! Dive into the world of "Digital Experience Design"!

About this minor

During the minor you will envision a future where technology enhances and supports our lives in meaningful ways. The programme empowers yous to design that future, giving direction to tomorrow's innovations. Shape and direct the world of tomorrow, today.

Why the minor Digital Experience Design?

Apply a Human Centered Design process for interactive products or services.
Create meaningful stories based on the principles of Emotion Based Storytelling.
Show intercultural sensitivity, knowledge and competency in diverse intercultural contexts.

More about the minor

In the minor Digital Experience Design students improve the skills that are important to solve these questions of the future: Human Centered Design, Intercultural Communication,, Storytelling, and reason about media in a digital society. This enables students to work on complex challenges in many professional fields. By looking at issues from an international perspective and by cooperating with international students they can see these in a broader context and better understand the impact of their designs.

Programme

Over 20 weeks, dive into digital media creation and research, aiming to enrich the digital society. Experience workshops, lessons on key topics, and a mandatory study optional field trips abroad for hands-on learning. Propose and attend custom lessons. Document your progress and insights in a versatile digital portfolio, leading to a final assessment and 30 ECTS.

Create meaningful stories based on the principles of Emotion Based Storytelling (Story Creation) After completing the minor DXD succesfully you can:
Design and create meaningful interactive products and/or services in response to the given societal challenge (all subjects).
Apply a human-centred design process to interactive products or services (Human-Centred Design)
Reflect on the ethics, empathy and meaning of media and apply these insights in a design project (Media in the Digital Society)
Demonstrate intercultural sensitivity, knowledge and competence in diverse intercultural contexts (Intercultural Communication)

For who?

This minor starts yearly in September and is meant for students with an interest in ICT, media and design.

To be admitted to this minor you need to demonstrate the following interests and/or skills:
- Preceding work experience in the field (in the form of an internship)
- Basic knowledge and experience in design processes and user research
- Being able to create digital prototypes through front-end programming and/or prototyping.
- Interested in working with people from other cultures and with different ways of working
- A good knowledge of the English language (equal to IELTS 6.0/TOEFL 80)

These entry requirements are tested (after submitting your application) by means of a cover letter and CV sent to Ferry Wonders (f.wonders@fontys.nl), if necessary followed by an interview. Should there be serious doubts about your chances of successfully finishing this minor, we will help you join a more suitable minor.