Bachelor of Design (Interaction Design)

This course prepares you for diverse and agile career pathways in design technology and innovation. It focuses on
the cutting-edge design skills knowledge and capabilities needed for a contemporary designer to work across multiple fields practices and contexts. Your degree will begin with introductory and shared impact lab units where working with students from other disciplines you'll focus on problems and social issues and identify potential olutions connected to industry and community.

You'll then undertake a series of interaction design studios focusing on industry-leading practices in human-centred design design thinking experience design service innovation and augmented reality. Your studies can be rounded with a second major from architectural studies industrial design studies fashion communication animation games design screen content production advertising or marketing.

Later in your degree you will be able to transfer skills and knowledge to a workplace or professional context and gain practical work experience with work integrated learning.

• Business to combine design skills and business acumen for unique opportunities to intersect design with marketing public relations advertising international business economics management and human resource management.
• Engineering to work in fields including product design product development structural engineering transport engineering and consultancy.
• Information technology to work in a range of creative and commercial industries including advertising education and gaming or in
  cultural institutions. Roles include interactive media designer usability specialist information architect or graphic designer.

You will graduate in a growing employment area with career pathways available including web and mobile app design interface design user experience (UX) design or interaction (IxD) design wearable fashion technology interactive exhibition design robotics design communication design and many more.

Career pathways available to you beyond the design industries include roles in game design information technology health education science and engineering as well as business and enterprise including data visualisation smart home and virtual reality environments.

Graduates qualify for Graduate Membership of Design Institute of Australia (DIA).

• Interaction designer
• Interface designer
• Mobile app designer
• Robotics design
• Usability expert
• User experience designer
• User researcher
• Visualisation expert
• Web designer

To meet the course requirements for the Bachelor of Design (Interaction Design) you must complete a total of 288 credit points comprising:

• a design major (144 credit points) including four shared foundation units (48 credit points) and 96 credit points from the interaction design discipline
• four school-wide impact lab units (48 credit points)
• complementary studies made up of:
  • a second major
  • two minors
  • 96 credit points chosen from the minor options design specialisation unit options and university wide unit options (elective) lists. A maximum of 48 credit points can be chosen from the university wide unit options (elective) lists.

Recommended second majors include:

• industrial design
• fashion communication
• animation
• game design
• screen content production
• advertising
• marketing.

Study overseas while earning credit towards your QUT creative industries degree with one of our worldwide exchange partners.

Overseas study can be for one or two semesters (or during the semester break) and the units you take can be in a creative or non-creative discipline area depending on how they match with your QUT course.

To meet the course requirements for the Bachelor of Design (Interaction Design) you must complete a total of 288 credit points comprising:

• a design major (144 credit points) including four shared foundation units (48 credit points) and 96 credit points from the interaction design discipline
• four school-wide impact lab units (48 credit points)
• complementary studies made up of:
  • a second major
  • two minors
  • 96 credit points chosen from the minor options design specialisation unit options and university wide unit options (elective) lists. A maximum of 48 credit points can be chosen from the university wide unit options (elective) lists.

Recommended second majors include:

• industrial design
• fashion communication
• animation
• game design
• screen content production
• advertising
• marketing.

Study overseas while earning credit towards your QUT creative industries degree with one of our worldwide exchange partners.

Overseas study can be for one or two semesters (or during the semester break) and the units you take can be in a creative or non-creative discipline area depending on how they match with your QUT course.