Kent State's program provides a broad introduction to all phases of the multidisciplinary design process, with the opportunity to build deeper knowledge and skills in a focus area. The program includes electives and dual degree options from aligned master's programs in related disciplines.
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The Kent State UX master’s degree has been crafted meet a broad range of student backgrounds.
Core courses give you a solid conceptual grounding in the roles and contributions of UX in collaborative agile design environments. From there, courses in focus areas allow you to go deep in your choice of electives. You will also work with your advisor and resources in our Professional Development Process to reflect, plan, and complete a course of study and a passion project that advances your career goals.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects increasing demand for user experience-related careers through 2032.
Graduates from the School of Information's User Experience program go on to interesting careers where they make a difference every day in the lives of users – in ways large and small.
Currently working as User Experience Researcher for the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, alumna Mackenzie Husmann, BS ‘18, MS ‘19, demonstrates how widespread user experience (UX) work is and how universal the need is.
At the Cleveland Federal Reserve, Mackenzie puts her user experience research skills to work along with some UX design. Her responsibilities touch on multiple internal and external applications, but one of her previous projects included updating of the Bank’s public facing website. She also helped brainstorm how the Money Museum at the Federal Reserve could enhance their interactions visitors would have within the exhibits.
Stephanie is the Principal Product Manager at ServiceNow, a company focused on developing automated solutions for organizations to help streamline their processes. Prior to that, she was a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft where she oversaw the Azure.com A/B testing program. “I was given ownership over the program after a re-org, and interestingly enough, I was told that I would be good for it on the basis of having my UXD degree,” Stephanie says.
As a Senior Program Manager, she was in charge of managing the backlog of experiments and seeing them through from ideation to execution. Throughout this process, she interacted frequently with designers, engineers and analysis to ensure experiments were created according to specifications. Her team’s goals were to optimize the user experience of Azure.com and make it easier for users to get started with utilizing Azure.
Brian is a UX Designer at Sony PlayStation where he primarily focuses on accounts and accessibility. He is in charge conceptualizing and creating new accessibility features for games, supporting hardware and software design for Access Controller and designing accessible components for the PS ecosystem of user research studies across the PlayStation environment, including the console, mobile app, and website.
As an advocate for accessibility and inclusive design, he works to educate people about accessibility. He created a Global Accessibility Awareness Day event for PlayStation’s San Francisco office.
