undergraduate
Experience Design, Minor
- Academics
- Experiences
- Interests
Experience design is a holistic approach that utilizes investigation into human environments in specific situations to improve quality. Given an understanding of goals, needs, and desires, it seeks to improve the various contexts by identifying and studying events and how they can be turned into beneficial practices.
View University Course CatalogInterests of Experience Design, Minor Students
- Artifacts
- Augmented
- Augmented Reality
- Cybernetics
- design
- Design Research Behavior
- Design Thinking
- Diagrams
- Emotional
- Engagement
- Environments
- Events
- Experience
- Experience Design
- Holistic
- Human-centered Design
- Immersion
- Immersive
- Innovation
- Integrative
- Integrative Design
- Interaction Design
- Interactions
- Interactive
- performance
- play
- Prototyping
- Relationships
- Responsive
- Sensorial
- Staging
- storytelling
- Strategy
- Systems
- Systems Design
- User Experience
- Virtual Reality
Co-op Opportunities
- MIT Mobile Experience Lab
Cambridge, MA - MIT Center for Civic Media
Cambridge, MA - Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
Boston, MA - Orgami Logic
Mountain View, CA - The Boston Beer Company
Suite 850 Boston, MA - TJMaxx and HomeGoods
Framingham, MA - Wayfair
Boston, MA - America's Test Kitchen
Boston, MA - LevelUp
Boston, MA - Mad Pow
Boston, MA - Philips Research (HealthTech and Lighting)
Cambridge, MA - Reed Exhibition
Richmond TW9 1DN, UK
Career Opportunities
- Multidisciplinary Skills
- understand and master design methods and techniques for palnning and design of systems, artifacts, communication, environments, and service offerings
- Develop strategies for applying core systems concepts and models to experience design
- Careers of Tomorrow
- Designer
- design Researcher
- Design Director
- Strategist
- Futurist
- Art Director
- Design Agency
- Innovation Agency
- Design Consultant
- Product Manager
Experience Design, Minor Requirements
Requirements for Non–Art and Design Majors
Electives
Requirements for Art and Design Majors
Note: This minor is not open to students pursuing the BFA in design program or any design combined major.
Electives
GPA Requirement
2.500 GPA required in the minor
*For complete program course listing, visit the University course catalog.
Resources for Current Students
Course Catalog
Visit the Registrar website for a course catalog and information on university core requirements.