17 Graphic, UX and Digital Design Degree Programs in Netherlands

Visual Arts & Post-Contemporary Practise is a graduation track of the Master of Arts in Fine Art & Design at Avans. In the graduation track Visual Arts, you develop practice- and process-based research with students from other disciplines. In a setting that connects cultural studies, visual and digital cultures.

In this international study programme, you will learn to make accurate visualisations of topics from the clinical, medical and biological domains. You will get the skills to use a wide range of traditional and digital visualisation techniques.

The Master of Science in Human-Computer Interaction might be for you if you are curious about how you can adapt computing devices to individual users. How to think of entirely new approaches to the interactions between human and machine, or what AI can learn from us and what we can learn from AI.

The international Bachelor Graphic Design in Arnhem offers an inspiring environment where you will develop your creative skills and sharpen your critical eye. You will learn to form new insights about, through and with graphic design.

Situated Design is a graduation track of the Master of Arts in Fine Art & Design at Avans. The programme recognizes you as a distinct presence in the world. You immerse in modern discourses and focus on prevailing conditions, situated knowledge and design practices. Your studies will take place within a diverse community of master's students from different backgrounds. You frequently collaborate with each other, across pathways and outside of the campus. This way you gain experience in a wide range of practices and establish a valuable network. Situated Design maintains strong connections with designers, publishers and institutions in the Netherlands and abroad.Through exposure to a variety of design methodologies and practices, students learn to iterate design concepts and are able to analyze, inform and shape their projects from concept to final project. Students learn to design with emerging technologies and creative software to create new perspectives and innovative forms of design and user experiences.

With the Bachelor Design Art Technology, you will develop into a critical thinker and multidisciplinary creator with your own artistic voice. Here, technology is both the material you work with and the subject you reflect on. Through experimentation, media art and creative technology, you will build a professional creative practice that is not only sustainable but also future-proof.

If you are creative, curious, interested in experimenting with images and converting ideas into visual concepts, then the Bachelor of Design may well be the right programme for you. We educate talented and ambitious students to become experimental designers with a critical attitude. Our graduates are fully prepared for a career as a designer.

Are you a creative person with an interest in technology? Do you strive to understand people and their needs and create engaging products and applications tailored to them? Then you’ll fit right into User Experience Design! Smart tools are a part of everyday life. You always carry your smartphone, equipped with every social media app imaginable.

The Master of Science (MSc) in System Design is a 2-year programme offered by Fontys University of Applied Sciences. Become the engineer, who crosses disciplines, who can think in conceptual and technical terms, and who controls interfaces of the technical disciplines in system design to ensure working effectively and efficiently.

The part-time Master of Science (MSc) in System Design is a 3-year program offered by Fontys University of Applied Sciences. Become the engineer, who crosses disciplines, who can think in conceptual and technical terms and controls interfaces of the technical disciplines in system design to ensure working effectively and efficiently.

Ecology Futures is a graduation track of the Master of Arts in Fine Art & Design at Avans. The two-year programme focuses on how bio art and bio design can create alternative futures. In which present-day ecological concerns are addressed.

With Crossmedia Design, you become a designer with a thorough understanding of all relevant media and the ability to communicate at the level of an art director. The programme encourages you to define your own position within a dynamic professional field and to engage with urgent social and societal issues. Through deliberate individuality, a personal signature, strong communication skills and a professional attitude, you learn how to persuade and make an impact.

MAPs offers an immersive journey where materials act as collaborators, bringing their own urgencies, stories, and ethical dimensions to your work. Through a hands-on, process-driven approach, you will explore sustainable practices, material alternatives, and the interaction between physical structures and personal presence. Here, artistic research focuses on the impact and agency of materials, adding depth to your practice without centering on products.

Delve into the field of human-computer interaction and design and develop interactive technologies that are meaningful to people and society. In today’s 21st century, modern technology is integrated into our daily lives more than ever before. But none of the advanced technologies we use today would have been successful if humans failed to interact with them. Human-computer interaction is one of the most important considerations in any kind of technological development. So how can you include the user in the development of new, interactive technologies?

In our current communication landscape - where graphic design plays a large role in the organisation and transformation of messages - there are many opportunities for reassessing and experimenting with communicating through visual languages.