Federal University Of Santa Catarina
Master in Design
Florianópolis, Brazil
Master degree
DURATION
LANGUAGES
Portuguese
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Mar 2024
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: The Master in Design at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina treats design as innovation and method for artifacts, services, and processes that enable social, political, and economic development. The programme centres on Design with two research lines: Management (Strategic Design Management for tech and community sectors, covering operational to strategic aspects) and Media (interactivity, usability, information and communication). A third emphasis, Technology, links research to prototyping, simulation and experimentation.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can work in product and service design; UX/UI; strategic design management; innovation consulting. They may join tech firms, creative agencies or public projects, or pursue doctoral study.
Understanding Design as innovation, methodology, and technique resulting in artifacts, services, and processes for political, social, and economic development, the Graduate Program in Design is structured in an area of concentration which is Design and in two lines of research, these being:
Management - based on Strategic Design Management, applied to organizations with a technological and social base, including sectors with high technological development and also community sectors It considers the operational, tactical, and strategic aspects and their relationship with the performance of the productive processes in the companies.
Media - gathering research based on the media and their interrelationships, involving: interactivity, interaction, usability, information, and communication, within the actions of, communication, education, and entertainment.
In addition, it is proposed to link to the third line of convergence (emphasis) called Technology, which brings together Design research with an emphasis on the use of prototyping, simulation and experimentation technologies in methods, processes, and services.
