Design and Interaction, MA

Why choose this programme? In a world where interfaces and interactive systems increasingly shape everyday life, communicating complex ideas and crafting meaningful digital experiences requires fresh approaches beyond traditional design. This English-language master’s programme concentrates on technologically supported interaction and emerging communication scenarios, with a clear focus on interface design and the role of design as a translator between people, objects and environments. You will be guided to become a responsible, concept-driven and content-oriented designer able to shape new modes of interaction and storytelling.

What you can expect professionally: the boundaries between disciplines are shifting as new media, tools and scenarios emerge. The programme prepares you to respond to these changes by developing new products, services and interaction forms. Graduates leave with broad, adaptable qualifications suited to a range of work settings — whether self-employed or employed, in industry or research, and on either the agency or client side.

Core skills and advantages: study will build your methodological, conceptual, design and technological competencies so you can tackle projects that span technology, computer science and design. These cross-disciplinary capabilities are intended to give you a competitive edge when addressing complex, multi-specialist challenges in design and interaction.

Requirements (summary)

• Programme language: taught in English.
• Focus areas: technologically supported interaction, interface and user-interface design, and digital/multi-layered storytelling.
• Profile encouraged: conceptually strong, content-oriented designers interested in the translation role of design.
• Interdisciplinary orientation: readiness to work across design, technology and computer-science perspectives.
• Career orientation: prepares for versatile roles — self-employment, employment, business, research, agency or client-side work.

This is a three-semester, project-focused follow-on Master's programme designed to deepen practical and theoretical skills in design and interaction. The course begins with a series of intensive workshops that help you evaluate your current skills, reflect on personal learning goals, and become familiar with the programme’s range of topics. In the first two semesters you will undertake one substantial project per semester—either student-initiated or assignment-based—giving you direct experience in defining problems, researching context, and shaping concepts into tangible outcomes.

Alongside these projects, taught modules build up your design, methodological and technical capabilities. From the second semester you receive structured support toward your Master's thesis, and you can broaden your perspective by choosing two elective courses from other academic fields to gain specialist knowledge relevant to your work. The final semester is exclusively dedicated to the Master's thesis, typically comprising a practical design and/or IT-focused project plus a written component; purely theoretical or scientific theses are also allowed.

Key modules

• Advanced Design
• Human–Computer Interaction
• Digital Culture and Ethics
• Creative Computing
• Workshop: Thesis Development
• Two elective courses from other disciplines

Learning outcomes

• Critically assess and reflect on your own design practice and skill level
• Analyse project contexts and requirements precisely to frame design problems
• Develop and iterate solution approaches, communicating concepts clearly
• Produce prototypes that integrate design and technology
• Acquire targeted design, methodological and technical skills to realise complex projects
• Plan and execute an independent Master’s thesis, either practical or theoretical

Programme structure and requirements (concise)

• Duration: three semesters (follow-on Master’s)
• Start: intensive introductory workshop series
• Semesters 1–2: one project each semester (self-selected or assigned) + taught modules
• Electives: choose two courses from other academic fields
• Semester 3: Master’s thesis (practical project with written component or scientific-theoretical thesis)
• Thesis supervision/support begins in semester 2

Graduates are prepared for roles where design, technology and communication intersect: product and interaction design, UX/UI roles, creative technology studios, research positions, agency or client-side design teams, and freelance practice. The programme emphasises adaptable conceptual and technical skills that enable graduates to create new products, services and interaction scenarios across sectors.

Because the curriculum develops methodological, conceptual and technological competence, alumni can confidently navigate interdisciplinary teams and take on responsibilities in design-led innovation, research and development or entrepreneurial ventures.