Bachelor of Design in Digital Technologies

The University of Melbourne

Good design has the power to transform and provide lasting solutions that improve our lives. Designers apply creative and open approaches to defining and solving problems, leading to high-quality decisions. This enables businesses and industries to overcome rigid or outdated ways of doing things. Design has applications in the creation and improvement of our cities, buildings, transport networks, furniture, websites, processes, bridges, landscapes and environment. Designers are innovators who enhance the way we live and interact with the world around us. The Bachelor of Design allows you to combine the humanities, sciences and visual and performing arts within a single degree. You can further tailor your skills through breadth study and third-year design specialisations, such as Building Image Modelling (BIM), to expand your core program. You can focus on one or two majors, or complete a major and a minor.The Digital Technologies major will provide you with practical skills and knowledge that can be applied in a variety of fields associated with design, with a special focus on digital material such as web-based media, mobile media and interactive technologies. The field of digital technologies is focused on human-computer interaction. This includes the study of how people interact with technologies, the design of technology, the Internet of Things, and user experience (UX). It examines how we might ensure that information technology is usable, useful and satisfying to engage with. You will learn the fundamentals of digital technology – including algorithmic, data-oriented and web-based techniques – and develop an understanding of how they can be applied in a range of areas.

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