Innovation Management courses

About Ux Design & Applied Innovation in Letterkenny Institute of Technology

Enhance your capabilities in user experience design (UX) and explore strategic design thinking methods underpinned by an end user centred clarity. Advance your skills in refined innovation processes, improve your visual communication skills, gain an insight into consumer behaviour & digital markets and explore emerging technologies.

During this course, you will enhance your capabilities in user experience design (UX) and explore strategic design thinking methods underpinned by an end user centred clarity. You will advance your skills in refined innovation processes, improve your visual communication skills, gain an insight into consumer behaviour & digital markets and explore emerging technologies. Typical applicants include, graduates from technical development and digital design backgrounds, current employees from the multinational and SME sectors in both technical and digital design capacity and unemployed graduates seeking to upskill.

The digital explosion of the 21st Century has revolutionised design & innovation. Advances in digital technology has given rise to new forms of products and services, which require creative solutions to increasingly complex problems. Expectations are higher than ever, and an educated, skilled workforce is called for. That’s where you come in.

In order to win new markets and thrive, the Irish technology sector has adopted design thinking methods and a user centred approach, encouraging the emergence of a design culture within. This is attracting a skilled workforce. Innovative graduates are in demand as they can think independently and critically, work well as part of a team, multi-task and generate new ideas through debate and discussion.

Graduate Careers

Graduate careers typically include:

• User Experience Design (UX),
• Strategic Design & Innovation lab roles
• User Interface Design (UI)
• Design Innovation
• Visual & Graphic Communication
• User Centred Research
• Interactive Design and Service Design

Acadamic qualification equivalents

• Applicants must hold an undergraduate honours degree in a related subject.
• Applicants with a honours degree in another field may be considered if they have at least 5 years industry experience in a related field.

English language requirments

TOEFL : 90, No less than 20 in each section

IELTS : 5.5

PTE : 63, With at least 59 for each item

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