Web & User Experience: User Experience Design Emphasis

Studying User Experience Design at Weber State

Weber State’s user experience (UX) design emphasis program prepares students to work as UX designers, do user research and have the technical and UX background to work and effectively collaborate with product engineers and implementation teams.

User Experience Design Highlights

User Experience (UX) design is a growing interdisciplinary field focusing on the interaction between humans and technology and the design of meaningful and transformative user experiences. It focuses on having a deep understanding of users and their needs and using that understanding to guide the design of new sites, apps, products and services.

Beyond the Classroom

Students in this emphasis gain practical experience through internships, working with community partners, including nonprofit organizations, to design and prototype powerful web experiences.

What You’ll Learn at Weber

The first two years of the program focus on front-end web design and development stack, basic coding languages and other fundamentals for creating great-looking web pages.

As you go on to earn your bachelor’s degree with this emphasis, you’ll learn to understand user behavior, needs, experience, and motivations; analyze user insights; performa quantitative and qualitative user research and design, test, and prototype responsive and accessible (universal design) web experiences.

What You Can Do After Weber

After two years, you can work in entry-level positions as a front-end web designer/developer. Graduates of this emphasis will be able to work as UX designers, do user research, and have the technical and UX background to work and effectively collaborate with product engineers and implementation teams.

Career & Salary Outlook

Recent graduates of Weber State’s web and user experience bachelor’s degree program have a range of starting salaries from $35,429 to $72,094. As of November 2020, there are about 24,000 UX designer job openings in the U.S. according to centercentre.com.

Common careers for web and user experience graduates in the U.S. and Utah
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