Game & UX Designer

The demand is high for UX design

With the latest in VR/AR and AI technology, we’re at the forefront of creating unique experiences. Businesses are continually improving customer interactions, making digital and conversational UX more essential than ever. As a Game and UX Designer student at Futuregames, you’ll develop expertise in game development, user experience (UX), VR/AR, gamification, business development, and leadership.

Our program is centered on user experience, game design, sustainability in business, and digital innovation.

• 2 years (4 terms/semesters)
• 20 weeks of internship (LIA)
• Degree: Higher Vocational Education Diploma

Be “the voice” of the player

Do you play a game and often think of how you can tweak its UI to a more player-centric UI? UX design is where the science of the player meets the art of game design. Seemingly small choices made by every one of the game/product development team impacts how the game experience manifests in players. Learn to be the voice of the player as a user experience designer, and create the game you will want to play.

Game & UX Designer course learning outcomes

• The ability to evaluate customer-specific information / behavior and prioritize design accordingly
• Understanding of behaviors based on statistics and how they are translated into design
• Ensuring design and user-friendliness in product and service development
• Implementing gameification and game thinking in products and services from an early design stage
• Understanding of conceptualization, iterative design and concretization of design and design processes
• The ability to quickly validate designs via functional prototypes
• Understanding and recognizing which trends will have a major impact on the market and how design must relate to it
• Understanding the different parts of a design process and how hypotheses and designs can be verified through different types of user tests
• The ability to create customer journeys and concepts based on specified needs of users

Learning by Doing, Learning by Reflection

Learn from industry professionals
Develop core competencies in game and UX design by learning from industry professionals and teachers from leading companies in the industry.

Creative environment
Get access to our creative environment including equipment and relevant software where you grow and build your skills together with talented classmates and senior game developers at Futuregames.

Game projects
You will actively participate in intensive game projects together with coursemates from our other programs that runs concurrently, where you will be simulating professional projects to reflect the reality of working in the gaming industry, and prepare for a progressive career in creativity.

We want to forge pragmatic individuals with balanced and broad-perspective mindset, strong ability to work together, leadership skills, and proactive attitude.

LIA (internship) as part of the education

One of the most important aspects of your education is your internship (LIA).  The internship serves to deepen and broaden your learning and help you gain the work experience you need. This is an opportunity to build your network within the industry during your studies.

We maintain a good relationship with the network of companies within the games and e-commerce industries for projects, industry events, guest lecturers, and recruitment.

The game industry needs you!

We work in close cooperation within the game and IT industries. Over 50 companies (game and IT companies in Norr- and Västerbotten in the North of Sweden) have attested that their industry needs more game and UX designers that are player-centric.

We have close working relationships and are in direct cooperation with the games industry. Some of these companies and studios includes King, Avalanche Studios, Ubisoft, EA DICE, Fatshark, Paradox Interactive, Starbreeze Studios, Glorious Games Group, Uprise, NEAT Corporation, Epic Games, Really Interactive, and the list goes on. All interviewed companies are open to accepting LIA students (internship) and are hiring directly from Futuregames.

The shortage is not just limited to the game and IT industries. Companies such as Boliden, and infrastructure companies such as Skellefteå Kraft, consultancy firms, app developers and agencies demanding more competence within creative product management, interaction design, software testers and programmers / developers.

Arctic Game is one of northern Europe’s fastest growing game cluster, located in campus Skellefteå, which connects companies to students, and creates environments where the community can learn from each other!

Apply as an international student?

Start your games career in Sweden with Futuregames.
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