The BDes in User Experience (UX) Design is a flexible, career-focused undergraduate degree that prepares you to design apps, websites, and digital products that are useful, inclusive, and beautifully made. You’ll learn how to understand real user needs, turn insights into solutions, and create high-fidelity prototypes you can test, refine, and present—just like UX teams do in the field.
Through hands-on, project-based courses, you’ll practice user research, usability testing, and prototyping using industry-standard tools. You’ll turn research insights into clear design decisions and refine your work through testing and iteration. Accessibility, universal design, and ethical practice are woven throughout the program, so you’re designing for real people in real-world contexts.
Along the way, you’ll develop professional skills in project management, collaboration, and storytelling—learning how to present your work confidently to clients, teams, and stakeholders. By graduation, you’ll have a strong portfolio that shows not just what you designed, but how and why you designed it—preparing you for entry-level UX, UI, and product design roles.
This UX Design Bachelor’s Program is explicitly aligned with contemporary digital product practice. Coursework emphasizes applied design strategy, research, interaction design, and product workflows. Graduates develop the UX skills employers value and are well prepared to enter UX and digital product roles.
The curriculum was developed in collaboration with UX leaders from major organizations across the digital product landscape, ensuring alignment with current industry needs and expectations. Faculty bring hands-on experience into the classroom, guiding students through real-world projects, sharing practical insights from their own careers, and mentoring them on the standards, tools, and emerging technologies shaping UX and product design today.
Students build a strong body of portfolio-ready work throughout the program. From research plans and wireframes to high-fidelity prototypes and evaluative testing, each course contributes substantial work that reflects their growth and skill development. Graduates leave with projects that clearly demonstrate what they designed, why they designed it, and the thinking behind their decisions.
Students have access to industry-standard equipment and amenities in our historic campus in Baltimore. MICA's campus is designed to encourage cross-disciplinary collaboration and artistic exploration, providing industry-standard equipment and facilities to support your creative pursuits.
Graduates with a BDes in User Experience Design will be prepared for roles such as:
UX Designer / Junior UX Designer
UI Designer / Junior Product Designer
Junior Interaction Designer
UX Research Assistant
Junior UX Analyst
Information Architecture / Content Design Support
Design Operations / Project Coordination
Product Design Associate / Associate Product Designer
"MICA’s curriculum felt like the right place to validate my skills, expand my thinking, and push me toward the next level of strategy, analytics, and problem-solving required in today’s evolving design landscape."
MICA’s innovative curriculum, state-of-the-art facilities and world-class faculty come together to support a single purpose: provide a no-holds-barred education and experience that will prepare you to be a creative leader in the 21st century. If you would like to receive more information, please click on the link below to fill out a form.
