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Master Digital Ideation We strategically design and implement digital experiences, products and services that are a pleasure to use.

Our goal is to be technically innovative, economically sustainable, socially relevant, and human-centred. Digital transformation creates both technological and design opportunities. Our interdisciplinary degree programme in Computer Science and Design is unique in Switzerland. Building on the BA/BSc in Digital Ideation, also available for lateral entry students, the programme offers a practice-oriented, collaboration-based curriculum. Develop and implement your project ideas in cooperation with research and development as well as industry partners.

Our intensive programme is available full-time and part-time and empowers ambitious designers to develop independently managed and viable projects with our research and industry partners.

Be curious!

We ask questions, engage stakeholders, experiment and prototype solutions.
How might we…

foster curiosity and experimentation?
design for cultural differences and inclusion?
shape a culture of participation?
prototype policies for resilient communities?
design for complex adaptive systems?
co-design with machine intelligence?
educate change agents for our societies?

Our lecturers from the School of Computer Science and Information Technology and the School of Art and Design support students in the following areas:
– User Experience
– Interaction Design
– Game Design
– Web / Mobile Design and Development
– Big Data, Data Science and Data Visualization
– Leading-edge topics such as the Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence and Machine
– Learning, Augmented and Virtual Reality, Smart Cities/Citizens

The MA programmes in Design, Digital Ideation, Eco-Social Design and Service Design are taught in English.

Fields of activity
Thanks to their competencies in systems thinking, social and environmental policymaking, sustainability design and impact assessment, graduates can lead design processes in cross-sector innovation.
In cooperation with clients from industry, research, public and culture sectors, they generate sustainable value for people and society.

Registration
The application deadline is every March. If you are interested in attending the Master of Arts in Eco-Social Design programme, contact us any time: we will be happy to review your application. In select cases, admission is possible after the application deadline.