Imagine a career path where you explain complex topics in an accessible and easy to understand way, or imagine a career where you take part in the design of a mobile application or website. The Information Design and User Experience (UX) pathway allows you to choose courses that align with growing careers in user experience, usability, and technical editing and documentation. Information design and user experience is a continuing growing field with a lot of demand in software, computing, and design industries.This career pathway allows you to learn web applications or share complex information in a way that is clear, concise, and accessible. Imagine yourself working with a team to create a mobile application that will help a user plan a vacation or manage a project or design a user manual for a machine. If you want to have a role in how an audience experiences a web application, company website, or a technical document like a user manual, this pathway will guide you toward that goal.

If you like thinking about how a user experiences content in the world and want to have an impact on user experience, a career in the pathway of Information Design and User Experience may be a good fit for you.

If you have additional questions regarding career pathways, please contact your academic advisor.

Possible careers

  • AI Trainer
  • App Developer
  • Computational Linguist
  • Prompt Engineer
  • Survey Researcher
  • Technical Editor
  • Technical Writer
  • User Experience (UX) Writer
  • Web Developer

Possible courses

The courses listed below are options available if you are interested in a career in Information Design and User Experience, allowing you to customize your degree and build expertise relevant to your career interests. Please check out the schedule of classes for availability and meet with your academic advisor to create your academic plan that meets the requirements for your major.

  • ENGL 1200: Language and Technology
  • ENGL 2140: Introduction to Technical Communication
  • ENGL 2150: User Experience Research and Writing
  • ENGL 2190: Introduction to Linguistics
  • ENGL 2200: Descriptive English Grammar
  • ENGL 2220: Artificial Intelligence and Writing
  • ENGL 3130: Rhetorical Website Design
  • ENGL 3132: Visual Communication of Quantitative Information
  • ENGL 3260X: Human Language and Generative AI
  • ENGL 3310: Theory of Computing
  • ENGL 4100: Language as Data
  • ENGL 4150: Business and Technical Editing
  • ENGL 4160: Visual Aspects of Business and Technical Communication
  • ENGL 5100: Introduction to Computers in Applied Linguistics
  • ENGL 5050: User Experience Architecture and Testing
  • ENGL 5200: Computational Analysis of English

Frequently asked questions

The courses listed for each pathway are options available if you are interested in a career in the particular pathway, allowing you to customize your major or minor and build expertise relevant to your career interests. Please check out the schedule of classes for availability and meet with your academic advisor to create your academic plan.

No, the pathways are resources to help you identify courses that are relevant to your career interests and to customize your degree program.

Absolutely!

No, the pathways are resources to help you customize your major and are not degree programs or certificates.