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User Experience Design MPS Online

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Pascal Bakari
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About the Program

The Master of Professional Studies (MPS) in User Experience Design is a fully online graduate degree designed for working professionals and learners who need to balance their studies with busy lives. Over 18 months, students will take one class at a time, developing skills in user-centered research, interface design, smart mobility, user testing, augmented reality, and data visualization, culminating in a two-part capstone project that foregrounds professional skills aligned to personal career goals.

Students learn to design technologically-mediated systems, experiences, and human interactions that are data driven. Critical inquiry and design provocations sharpen insights as students become adept with models of interaction, experience, and communication.

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In seven-week classes, students will gain practical skills taught by industry professionals working at the cutting edge of UX design. Students will work with the latest software and hardware for design ideation and development. Students will graduate ready to seek career advancement or transition into a more technical UX design role and have a portfolio that evidences professional skills for advancing their career in User Experience Design.

User Experience (UX) Designer
User Interface (UI) Designer
Interaction Designer
Visual Designer
UX Researcher
Mobile or Web UX Designer
AI UX Designer
Smart Mobility UX Designer
Automotive UX Designer
Content Designer
Systems Designer
Service Designer
Product Designer
UX Strategists
Lead/Principal UX Designer
Entrepreneur/UX Startup Founder
UX Director/Head of UX

MPS Total Program Cost
Year 1: Academic Year 2025-26 Charges
Semester 1 (Fall 2025): $7,976
Semester 2 (Winter 2026): $7,976
Semester 3 (Summer 2026): $3,988
Total Cost (Year 1): $19,940

Year 2: Academic Year 2026-27 Charges
Semester 4 (Fall 2026): $6,976
Semester 5 (Winter 2026): $2,991
Total Cost (Year 2): $9,967

Total Program Cost: $29,907.00

  • The program is structured into 7-week fully online asynchronous courses, each strategically designed to consecutively and seamlessly flow into the subsequent course, ensuring a cohesive learning journey.
  • Graduate program faculty teach and mentor students to provide expert-level guidance.
  • Multi-modal content delivery, including visual, audio, and written materials, caters to diverse learning preferences.
  • Weekly overviews and clear outcome explanations provide students with precise expectations, fostering clarity and focus.
  • An integrated assessment tool confirms weekly learning outcomes, ensuring comprehension and progress tracking.
  • Asynchronous learning dominates the course structure, featuring video lectures, supplementary resources, and discussion boards, promoting flexibility and accommodating varied schedules. A weekly required real-time Zoom session (60-90 minutes) facilitates interactive engagement and real-time clarification of concepts with faculty.
“BioAlign” a patient-centric medical app on a colorful background, designed to empower patients to discover complementary and alternative medical systems that align with their belief system based on scientific facts.
Rendering of someone driving an active lifestyle vehicle for content creators. Includes large touchscreens
rendering of someone using a touch screen on a virtual Studio app to provide a seamless experience between reality and virtual worlds to enhance workflow for social media.
colorful screens with animated characters from “Brain Bounce” Gamified cognitive behavior activities for kids designed to help teachers care for elementary school students with emotional dysregulation without disruption to class time.
colorful screens from the“BioAlign” app showing a patient-centric medical app designed to empower patients to discover complementary and alternative medical systems that align with their belief system based on scientific facts.
hands holding an app called “Why Waste.” It is a critical design project that exposes the hidden habits and systems underlying our everyday food waste.
Screen showing good morning messaging on “Harmonia,” a smart support ecosystem for elderly care designed to be a calm, intuitive and emotionally supportive interface.
sound board with sound waves of the “Echoes of Calm” sensory journey into the emotional reality of flight attendants. It shows soundscapes layering real aircraft recordings and ambient textures. Sounds were then manipulated through pitch shifting, EQ, time stretching and spatial effects to reflect changing emotional states.
rendering showing a headrest design for the “Echoes of Calm” headrest, which creates an immersive and relaxing sound environment that relieves stress and improves the quality of breaks for flight attendants.
rendering of a person sitting in an aircraft showing the implementation of “Echoes of Calm” immersive sound environment

Real-World Experience

Our User Experience Design Alumni are changemakers, leading and inspiring the next generation of design.

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