In the Postgraduate in Design of Network Applications and Interactive Services, you will learn everything you need to be able to contextualize and develop a proposal of services and digital businesses on the internet.
You will discover everything you need to create apps and services centred around people. Apps, websites, and every other kind of digital service play a crucial role in our lives. Listening to music, bank procedures, getting an official document from the city council, finding a partner or friends, electing political leaders… All these tasks and many more depend on services that are strategically developed to serve users, society, and companies.
To this end, this programme proposes an applied training offer that covers all necessary aspects to discover businesses or social improvement opportunities, develop solutions in an agile and iterative way, and achieve commercially and socially successful effects. From strategic definition and value proposition to the planning of implementation road maps, we will explore the different stages and tasks required. Without forgetting the technical knowledge that is essential to be able to develop technological proposals (e.g., databases, programming languages, or API integration).
Thanks to a teaching staff specialized in each of the programme’s thematic areas, case studies, and the completion of an applied project, the student will obtain transdisciplinary training. With this training, students will have a detailed vision of the entire process of creating an interactive project where the business vision, user experience (UX), technology, and interface design are central.
The methodology of the course has a practical approach, but without neglecting the theoretical principles of interaction design or the contemporary debates surrounding the ethics and aesthetics of digital culture.
To this end, we structure the course in thematic modules that include subjects that develop practical methods and procedures, masterclasses and lectures by renowned professionals in the same thematic area, and specialised workshops.
We consider these workshops as part of our innovation laboratory, which we call UX Avant, which allows us to place a more exploratory type of practices that encourage the transmission of knowledge through reflection and practice. To this date, we have explored topics related to music, television, e-mobility, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, professional ethics, etc.
The postgraduate degree also engages in Elisava Research’s thematic proposals, taking advantage of collaboration opportunities that may arise through its research projects. In particular, our postgraduate degree is actively involved in developing projects that are linked to issues related to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and social justice debates linked to gender, decoloniality, and ableism.
We also seek to promote the talent of our students by offering internships in important companies in the sector and startups. In recent years, we have established agreements with HP, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Insight Center of CaixaBank, Zurich, the Web Science and Social Computing research group, Datalog, NTT Data, and Multiplica, among many others.
Finally, we encourage the participation of our students in specialized congresses and in national and international awards. These give visibility to the projects carried out within the framework of the postgraduate degree, and we have obtained several gold, silver, and bronze prizes in recent editions.
Students of the Postgraduate in Design of Applications and Interactive Services should have an innovative attitude, the capacity for independent learning, and a desire to explore the novel solutions that design and technology can offer society.
Access and Admission Requirements: We recommend students to have completed undergraduate studies in Design in the following sectors: Industrial Design Engineering, Product Development, Audio-visual Communication, Advertising, Computer Engineering, Multimedia Studies, Journalism, Psychology, Sociology or other social sciences. For those without a university degree, students can gain access to the Postgraduate in Design of Applications and Interactive Services by demonstrating verified professional experience in the sector. Students must have basic knowledge of 3D software.
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