User experience skills are increasingly valued by industry yet are not typically covered in traditional psychology or engineering programs. Students who complete a concentration in user experience will enhance their employment potential.

 

The BS degree program in human systems engineering with a concentration in user experience combines topics in psychology, the Web, human factors, visual displays and technical communications to make products and services useful, usable and desirable. Students learn how to research customer needs, identify criteria for successful products and services, prototype those products and services, and refine them through usability testing and other user-centered methods.

Increasingly, companies are searching for professionals to help them make products and services more usable and desirable. In recent years, CNN, U.S. News & World Report and other news organizations have rated user experience as one of the top emerging careers, with benefits that include high pay, opportunity to telecommute, low stress and high job growth.