Master's in User Experience | Innovation UX Master's Degree

UX-driven innovations are no longer a luxury, but a must for maintaining competitive advantage in the marketplace. The continual demand for innovative technologies in our daily lives, both at personal and organizational level, is intensified by the continually increasing pace of our digital economy. Tech companies must ensure that their products are successfully embraced and effectively used by their intended users at home and at work. To achieve this goal, competition in the IT industry has shifted toward developing an outstanding user experience (UX).

Innovative companies know UX is key to gaining and retaining customers. Become a UX specialist and meet the growing demand for professionals who work with product designers, game designers, and technology designers to deliver exceptional user experiences. Get there by joining our online Master's in Innovation with User Experience graduate program, one of the first such programs in the nation with faculty with UX expertise who provide IUX skills and experiences to professionals with a variety of backgrounds.

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Learning Outcomes

The online Masters in Innovation with User Experience prepares students for working in advanced technological environments where they apply the UX driven innovation (UXDI) framework to help their companies develop competitive products and services. Gain skills for careers in product design, user experience design, user experience engineering, interaction design, human factors in computing, and web and mobile app design.

In our project-based, asynchronous online learning environment, students will:

Gain needed skills for designing competitive human-centered technologies.
Gain foundational knowledge in design thinking, design science, and the UX-driven innovation (UXDI) framework for developing technological innovations (e.g., smart and connected systems, robots, AR/VR applications) for homes and work environments.

Develop and execute plans for gaining a deep understanding about user needs.
Develop and execute plans for discovering opportunities for creating business and social value with UX driven innovations.
Develop and execute plans for designing and evaluating the discovered UX-driven innovation opportunities.
Develop advanced skills in focused area(s) of interest through the specialties offered in this program such as Applied Analytics, Understanding User for Developing and Delivering IUX, Managing and Organizing Innovation, IUX Research, System Design for IUX, and others.
Capstone experience enables students to revise, integrate, and apply their knowledge and skills through a large project.

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*Hours will be available during the academic calendar weeks for the fall and spring semesters only—not during the summer or school holidays/breaks.

Curriculum

The UI UX master’s online is a 33-credit program, designed as a stackable, professional master’s degree. As such, it involves a realistic capstone project. The MS IUX also serves as an entry to the PhD program in the WPI Business School, and thus allows for research credits (with permission of the IUX program director).

Students will gain specialized knowledge in the following areas/specialties:

System Design. Prepares students for designing advanced technologies that utilize data science approaches such as business intelligence and machine learning.
Applied Analytics. Prepares students for careers involving information retrieval, data curation, and data analysis.
Marketing. Prepares students for developing product management strategies that take advantage of consumer analytics.

Subject to change based on availability.
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Students must complete the three-course core as follows:

MIS 583. User Experience Applications
MIS 585. User Experience Design
MIS 586. User Experience Methods

Students must complete two three-course specialties, selected from the following specialties:

Brands, Products and Consumers

MKT 500. Marketing Strategy
MKT 561. Consumer Behavior and Analytics
MKT 569. Product and Brand Management

System Design (Select any 3; The first three are online; the others, which are not FBS courses, may not be available online)

MIS 500. Innovating with Information Systems
MIS 571. Database Applications Design and Development
MIS 582. Information Security Design and Management
IMGD 5000. Game Design Studio
IMGD 5300. Design of Interactive Experiences
RBE/CS 526. Human-Robot Interaction
RBE 595. Synergy of Human and Robot Systems
WR 593. Robot Futures: Design, Ethics, Communication

Applied Analytics (Select any 3)

MIS 502. Data Management for Analytics
MIS 584. Business Intelligence
MIS 587. Business Applications in Machine Learning
OIE 559. Optimization for Business Analytics
DS 501. Introduction to Data Science
DS 502. Statistical Methods for Data Science
- or, MA 511. Applied Statistics for Engineers and Scientists

Organizing and Managing Innovation (Select any 3)

FIN 500. Financial Management
ETR 500. Entrepreneurship and Innovation
ETR 593. Technology Commercialization
MIS 576. Project Management
OBC 533. Negotiations
OBC 537. Leading Change

Students must complete a two-course capstone project experience

OBC 505. Teaming and Organizing for Innovation
MIS 573. System Design and Development
- Capstone project for IUX and IT students

Master’s in Innovation with User Experience