The University of
Texas Dallas recently highlighted its growing prominence in the
user experience (UX) design field, enabled through the school’s
transdisciplinary ArtSciLab and the university’s School of Arts, Technology and
Emerging Communication.
“There’s a growing
trend in more courses focused on user experience (UX) design and interaction
design at colleges across the nation,” ArtSciLab director of design and research Cassini Nazir said. “Many of these
concepts have come out of human computer interaction concepts, but design
research and UX have really emerged as disciplines in their own right. Industry
has helped by investing in design researchers and user experience designers in
their spaces.”
UX is also receiving
growing attention from companies, ranging from large, established companies to
startups, that see the value of the field as it pertains to their customer
relations. UT Dallas’ arts and technology program has a recruitment
program with Sabre and Intuit, and UT Dallas students who learned and practiced
in the lab have gone on to work at companies like Dell, Capital One, Cisco
Systems, AT&T, Siemens, General Motors, Fossil and J.C. Penney.
“UTD has really
benefited from it because there’s a boom of businesses setting up offices in
Dallas,” Nazir said. “Many of those companies have been hiring teams of
designers, and we’ve been successful in filling those needs.”
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