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Every fall, MDES Bootcamp convenes students and faculty for intensive training and team-building exercises, solving design challenges together.
Learn MoreAs a student in the Design Innovation program, you will immerse yourself in coursework that blends design and business thinking as you prepare to join the next generation of innovators.
Classes consist of approximately 60% design and 40% business content, bringing quantitative business metrics to the designer’s qualitative problem-solving process. This holistic, human-centric program emphasizes four key skill areas: empathy, analysis, contextual understanding, and communication.
Through interdisciplinary work, you will learn how to:
In addition to learning from core MassArt faculty, Design Innovation students take courses with talented and visionary professionals serving as visiting lecturers. Classes are co-taught by design and business professors in a fully integrated, collaborative teaching model.
Graduates of the Design Innovation program enter the workforce as service designers, experience designers, design strategists, and innovation leaders. These hybrid design and business professionals are positioned to influence growing industry areas both nationally and internationally, offering a distinctly different kind of leadership to the marketplace.
Students who complete the Design Innovation MDes program are expected to be able to demonstrate the following learning outcomes.
Every fall, MDES Bootcamp convenes students and faculty for intensive training and team-building exercises, solving design challenges together.
Learn More