Bachelor's degree
Computer Science
Computer Science programme — Bac+3 level
The solid foundations of the software engineering profession.
- Python
- Java
- SQL
- Linux
3 years20 h/week
5 400 000 GNF per yearView curriculum
IHETC School of Computer Science
User Experience Design and Digital Creation
Designing interfaces nobody needs to explain.
- Entry level
- Bachelor's degree
- Award
- Bachelor's degree
- Duration
- 2 years
- Actual work
- 20 h/week
- Pace
- Compatible with a job
- Tuition
- 4 800 000 GNF per year
Experience design is not a matter of taste: it is a discipline of enquiry. You watch people use something, spot where they hesitate, change it, watch again. This programme teaches that loop before it teaches the tools, because a designer who masters the tool without the method produces pleasing screens that fail in production. It also addresses local constraints — weak connections, entry-level handsets, varying literacy — that render most imported mock-ups unusable.
Learning objectives
- Run user research and turn it into design decisions
- Design a journey that holds on an entry-level handset
- Build and maintain a reusable component system
- Make an interface usable by a person with a disability
Curriculum
1200 hours · 120 credits
Year 1600 hours
Research and framing
200 hours · 20 credits
Interviewing, observation, usability testing, defining the real problem
Information architecture
180 hours · 18 credits
Content organisation, naming, navigation, journeys, error cases
Interface design
220 hours · 22 credits
Grids, typography, visual hierarchy, colour, density, component states
Year 2480 hours
Accessibility and real constraints
180 hours · 18 credits
Contrast, keyboard navigation, screen readers, weak connections, modest devices
Component systems
180 hours · 18 credits
Design tokens, libraries, documentation, handover to implementation
Workshop and placement
120 hours · 12 credits
Full redesign of an existing service, tested on real users · ten-week placement · publicly defended
Cross-curricular, throughout120 hours
Cross-curricular base
120 hours · 12 credits
Professional English, web implementation basics, presentation methodology
Real prerequisite
What follows is assumed and will not be explained again. If most of it is foreign to you, this is not the right entry point — better to know now than at the final assessment.
No prerequisite in drawing or programming. Curiosity about how people go wrong using a tool is far more useful.
Entry requirements
- Secondary school qualification, or experience in digital creation
- Presentation of personal work, in any medium
- Motivation interview
Career outcomes
- User experience designer
- Interface designer
- User researcher
- Design system designer
- Digital accessibility lead
Skills acquired
- User research
- Usability testing
- Information architecture
- Accessibility
- Design systems
- Prototyping
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