Umeå Institute of Design

This program supports students in developing ideas from vision to reality through a human-centered creative design process, encouraging solutions to real-world problems for a sustainable future. It emphasizes people, products, services, and the environment, providing tools to lead creative processes within the Swedish user-centered design tradition.

This program is a solution-driven education focused on the advanced treatment of design through user studies, problem identification and analysis, and new technologies and materials. It emphasizes innovative thinking to find the best solutions for design opportunities, combining core product design knowledge with emerging physical and digital technologies.

This program deals with the relationship between people and the world, focusing on the interaction between product and user, enabling designers to create sustainable, comprehensible, and pleasurable information-based products, services, and environments. It prepares students for careers as UX/UI designers, interaction designers, and product designers.

This program encompasses the complete transportation design field in collaboration with the industry, encouraging a balanced process where form, function, materials, and technologies benefit users. Students explore the design and development of all types of vehicles, addressing innovation for mobility on a global scale.

This program educates multi-dimensional design researchers through courses in design research methodology, history, philosophy, and user-centered design, tailored to the individual student's specialization. It encourages students to develop advanced skills in crafting practical, theoretical, and methodological research contributions to the field of design.

This program operates between the artistic and scientific fields, focusing on sustainability with an exploratory and experimental profile and teachers from all over the world. It leads to a Master of Fine Arts, enabling work in architecture and urban planning in both private and public sectors.

The Industrial Design Intensive is a one-year course package aimed at giving an intensive introduction into the methods and processes used in the field of industrial design. The first six months are dedicated to basic methods in industrial design with a focus on the design process. The final semester includes basics in interaction design, service design and design management.