Human Centered Design

The semester Human Centered Design focuses on developing your technical skills to create digital interactive products with cutting edge technologies, assited by artificial intelligence. This includes front end programming languages and frameworks to create your showcase portfolio.

To reach the highest level possible in creating minimal viable products you will gain proficiency in the necessary types of usuabilty research and ux testing and design. The semester prepares you for a graduation internship in the field of user interaction in the broadest sense. After completing this semester you will be profesionally skilled in front end programming.

You can convert any thinkable concept into any prototype or an mvp. This includes software testing and user testing. You are responsible for your own choices of tools, programming languages, libraries or framework. There is an international week in which you participate in projects together with students from international partner universities. You will cooperate with students from a broad diversity of academic backgrounds.

There are two streams in the semester. If you choose the first stream, you will have three individual case studies of three weeks each and a concluding group project with a partner in innovation of six weeks. If you choose the second stream, you will work on a all-inclusive group project for a not for profit societal organization for the entire semester. You will operate like a professional digital agency during this project.

The semester includes a start up week, the international week and a final exposition week.

Preparing semesters could be Applied Generative AI, Distributed Software Development, Front End Development, Game Design, Media Creation and Mobile Apps Development. This list is not exclusive. You could include Human Centered Design in practically most study routes.

Follow up semesters might be Complex Software Systems, Enhanced AI Techniques, Game Production and Immersive Experiences. Alternatively, you can follow up this semester with a free study area, e.g. a minor. If Human Centered Design is your semester 7, you continue to your graduation.