The Hague University of Applied Sciences
Bachelor of User Experience Design.
The Hague, Netherlands
Bachelor's degree
DURATION
3 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2026
TUITION FEES
EUR 10,164
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
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. You check your heart rate on your smartwatch while you exercise. Have you ever wondered what goes into designing user-friendly and meaningful products like these?
User Experience Designers tackle questions to make these products meaningful and user-friendly. We constantly ask questions like “How important is this to users?” “What value does this add to people?” “How can we make this application fun?” “How can we use technology to make people’s everyday life easier?”
The Hague University of Applied Sciences offers two versions of their Communication and Multimedia Design programme. The first one is Interaction Design (Dutch), and the second one is User Experience Design (UXD, English). Both versions appeal to the creative power of students. Interaction designers use this power to create smart applications that can be used immediately. User experience designers invent smart concepts. In both programmes, we are always looking for the best possible quality of interaction between humans and systems. Both directions lead to the same final qualification, a Bachelor of Science.
Does this programme sound like something for you? Feel free to contact us. We look forward to seeing you next academic year!
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Year 1
Jumping into design practice
No, we’ll not bury you in books in this first year of User Experience Design. But, yes, you get a lot of introductory courses this year. In a very pleasant way. From day 1 you communicate with companies like Philips, IKEA and Google. You discuss with professionals, fellow students and lecturers how your ground-breaking ideas can change the way people use daily products.
Doing this you’ll get an understanding of how the user interacts with technology. You begin to fill your toolbox with the basics of communication, prototyping, persuasive experiences, technical designing and programming. You learn how to turn simple ideas into experiences across digital and physical platforms. You’ll programme your digital skills looking at web technologies, mobile platforms (Android and iOS), processing, Arduino and sensor technology.
Block 1 and 2
Module 1
- Fieldtrip to LInz, Ars Electronica and intercultural skills
- Introduction to UX Design
- Research for design I
- Design and Creativity
- Skills Lab
Module 2
- Interaction Design I
- Research for design II
- Psychology of Experience
- Project Bespoke Design
Block 3 and 4
Module 3
- Interaction Design II
- Programming
- Building Engaging Prototypes
- Project Design for Emotion
Module 4
- Digital playground
- Values in Design
- Persuasive Experiences
- Project Research and Design
Year 2 and 3
Digging deeper
After your User Experience Design explorations in year 1, you’ll start digging deeper at the beginning of year 2. You’ll turn serious ideas into viable business plans. You’ll always pay close attention to end users’ technology habits. To make your technological designs a success, you have to understand the social systems at the core of your ideas. You will appreciate that tastes differ. That international tastes differ even more. The international classroom at UXD will show you how different cultures experience technology. You’ll learn how to cater for the world’s product needs.
In the first two modules of year 2, you take a minor programme, you go on an exchange or internship. And in the first half of year 3 you make an in-depth exploration of the complexities of UXD.
Internship
Your internship will be your first long-term introduction to practice. During your internship you use your knowledge, skills and attitude for example for giants like Capgemini, Intel, Apple or another company. Do an internship at one of the many great design agencies in the Randstad. Or at an IT company, a large insurer or bank. As a junior user experience designer you think about creating new concepts.
UXD is a global profession. So, why shouldn’t you use your toolbox in another country during your internship? In any case, you will discover which facets of user experience design appeal to you the most in practice. With that experience you can choose your minors or determine your graduation assignment.
Your graduation
You have almost finished your study. Just your graduation project. A challenge you take up without the help from your fellow students or lecturers in the second half of year 3. In the first half of this year you already have made an in-depth exploration of the complexities of UXD. This is really ‘all things UXD’! The graduation project gives you the opportunity to show which knowledge and skills you have collected in your toolbox during this three-years programme. After you have presented the results of your graduation project in a good effort you are ready to pack a punch in your new career as a digital pioneer.
What you will become?
- UX designer
- UX researcher
- Interaction Designer
- User Experience Designer
- Front-end developer
- Service Designer
- Social Designer
- Visual Interface Designer
- Information technology manager
- Mobile applications developer