Develop expertise in interaction design for a range of contemporary and future-orientated contexts, technologies, and platforms.

Interaction design at AUT covers design for digital web platforms (desktop, mobile, and other devices), app design, and product interface design. 

It can also include a design for information systems, wayfinding, and navigation, digital dashboards, and controls, as well as wearable technologies, and augmented and virtual spaces.

You’ll work individually and in teams to combine knowledge of human-centered frameworks, complex problem-solving, and visual systems to create design solutions to current and future challenges.

Key features

• Covers a range of creative processes and technologies for interaction and user experience design
• Design for web, apps or interactive products and systems
• Explores what makes a good user experience
• Future-oriented

• Certified copy of your birth certificate or passport
• Certified copy of marriage certificate (If required)
• Official academic transcripts
• English Language Proficiency (If Available)
• CV/Work experience (If required)
• A copy of the document(s) in the original language/and official English translation
• Portfolio

1_ All applicants need to meet AUT’s minimum entry requirements qualification equivalent to New Zealand year 13 or University Entrance.

High school qualifications from different countries:

India: 

• 12 years of schooling with an overall average of 75% in four academic subjects, including a min 60% in English from the All-India Senior Certificate (AISSC).
• All other Higher Secondary State Board Examinations require an overall average of 80% in four academic subjects with a min 65% in English.

China:

• Senior High School graduation plus one year of successful study at bachelor's level; or
• Senior High School graduation plus completion of a two-year diploma, with good grades, at a recognized university.
• A Tier 1 score in the National University Entrance Examination (Gaokao) at a recognized institution

2_ They must have a portfolio of creative and design work.

Don’t meet the entry requirements?

Consider starting with Tītohu mō te Hoahoa - Diploma in Design.

Foundation programmes

If you don’t have the academic qualifications needed for direct entry into an AUT programme, you can enroll in a foundation programme.

If you successfully complete the foundation programme and get the required grades, you are guaranteed entry into an appropriate AUT programme.