DIGITAL EXPERIENCE DESIGN
YOUR FUTURE
Alberta needs digital experience designers with expertise in all areas—user experience design, user interface design, interaction design and web design. When you take this certificate program, you gain the skills you need to excel in the digital experience design sector, helping to diversify Alberta’s economy and filling a gap in the digital labour industry.
This post-diploma certificate provides previously trained designers who are interested in enhancing their skills with access to DXD training linked directly to the current MacEwan Bachelor of Design. As well, this certificate offers computer scientists and engineers an opportunity to supplement their technical skills with a human-centred approach to creating digital products. Lastly, it offers a valuable entry point to people coming from non-technology centered fields like communications, psychology, sociology and business, ensuring a variety of new profiles in the tech field.
Industry demand for DXD
There is a considerable need for more digital experience designers (also known as user experience designers) to work with computer scientists and engineers to create more user-friendly digital products. There has been a significant gap in the Alberta digital industry for more than 15 years as our world becomes more and more mediated by digital experiences.
Careers
In Alberta, digital experience design is one of the top five most in-demand digital jobs in the province.
- User experience designer
- User interface designer
- Interaction designer
- Web designer
- Information architect
- Product designer
- Service designer
The Alberta Learning Information Service (ALIS) hosts detailed occupational profiles, salary survey data, trend reports and assessment tools to help you choose and plan a career that matches your skills and interests.
Your future in design
Professionals from Edmonton’s design community reflect on what it takes to be a 21st-century designer—and how focusing on DXD can take you there.
Yellow Pencil
Paul Bellows, president of Yellow Pencil, on how designers can save the world by solving design and interface problems.
Matthew Fagnan
JOBBER
Matthew Fagnan, design team lead at JOBBER, on how designers use teamwork and collaboration to solve today’s design challenges.
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All courses completed in this program are credit courses and may be transferable toward further study at post-secondary institutions in Alberta.