About
"User Experience is truly a discipline that transgresses national and cultural borders. This provides a unique opportunity to work in a rich and diverse environment. Our goal is to give the students contact with practitioners with an international background and experience working on international projects and initiatives. Above all, it is about learning practical skills and acquiring a User Experience mindset."
Hubert Anyżewski
Founder of the Program
Maciej Płonka
Head of the Program
Addressees
The field of study is dedicated to passionate and curious people who want to create, design, and change digital products and services.
The studies are offered to people who are starting their adventure with designing digital products or already have relevant experience and want to organize their knowledge.
Goal
Our goal is to educate in the most practical manner designers who create usable and engaging digital products and services.
Students will have a chance to learn about the theory of User Experience / Product Design and adjacent disciplines, such as psychology, visual design, and development. The knowledge of best practices, rules, and limitations will then be practiced by students while working on the development of their products throughout the whole year.
Duration
The program includes over 190 hours of classes for students and dozens of hours of meetings with Mentors and Experts. During their studies, students work both during classes and, afterward, within project teams, developing product prototype.
Class format
Most classes are organized as workshops, in project groups, and focus on practical skills.
Classes are conducted online, also using specialized research, design, and collaboration software.
Credit requirements
- attendance in class (80%),
- on-time handing in and passing the stages (5 stages), evaluated by an Expert in a given area,
- passing the exam,
- the final prototype and its group presentation before a committee of Experts.
Document confirming completion of the program
Graduates will receive a postgraduate diploma (świadectwo ukończenia studiów podyplomowych), issued by SWPS University, as defined by the Act on Higher Education.
Program
PROGRAM
The Center for Professional Education reserves the right to make changes to the program, the faculty, and the mode of teaching, should significant reasons for such changes occur.
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The program includes over 190 hours of classes for students and dozens of hours of meetings with Mentors and Experts. During their studies, students work both during classes and, afterward, within project teams, developing product prototype.
Most classes are organized as workshops, in project groups, and focus on practical skills.
During their studies, students learn about the design process, techniques, and tools needed to implement the project based on the best and latest practices and many years of practical experience in the Polish and global markets.
The studies consist of 5 thematic blocks that create a 5 stage of UX Design and Product Design process.
- Research (encompassing creating and organizing project teams, discussing specifics and methods of UX research, preparing desk and user research, practicing interview techniques, and creating personas)
- Strategy (focusing on product definition and strategy, workshopping using methods such as customer journey mapping and value proposition mapping)
- Model (encompassing theory of information architecture, crafting user scenarios and user flows, learning about usability and accessibility best practices, discussing and workshopping design artifacts)
- Prototype (learning design tools, preparing product prototypes, learning about the specificity of designing for different devices and contexts, discussing cooperation with the broader project team)
- Test (learning about qualitative and quantitative methods of assessing a product's success, preparing and conducting usability tests, and using their results to improve the product)
Stages of product implementation (according to the design thinking approach) are assessed by stage Experts and discussed with the studentsEach group cooperates with a dedicated Mentor throughout the study period, who works with the groups between classes.
Through the program, we use software and online solutions to foster communication and collaboration
PROGRAM IN SOCIAL MEDIA
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Our Lecturers
LECTURERS
Admissions
ADMISSIONS TO POST-GRADUATE PROGRAMS
Recruitment for the postgraduate program requires completing an online application form. Please be informed that completing the online recruitment form is not equivalent to qualifying for a postgraduate program.
Admission to the studies is determined by order of application.
The University reserves the right not to launch the course in case of an insufficient number of applications.
Please note, completion of the online Application Form does not equal acceptance to a given post-graduate program. The Center for Professional Education reserves the right to invite candidates for an interview.
Please note: SWPS University reserves the right to cancel a post-graduate program, should the number of candidates be insufficient.
Fees
FEES
Tuition fee, 2022-2023 academic year
| Application fee PLN 300 |
| 10 instalments |
PLN 1 340 |
| 2 instalments |
PLN 6 450 |
| 1 instalment |
PLN 12 500 |
Graduates of the former Warsaw School of Social Psychology (Szkoła Wyższa Psychologii Społecznej, SWPS), SWPS University, and students of SWPS University are exempt from paying the application fee.
You will pay your tuition fee into your individual subaccount. You can find your account number on the Virtual University Platform (enter your last and first name and the name of the Graduate Certification program you are paying for).