Master specialised in Interior Architecture & Design - UX Design & Interactive Environments

Presentation of the course

WHAT IS THE CONTEXT FOR A SPECIALISATION IN UX DESIGN & INTERACTIVE ENVIRONMENTS?

The specialised Master's degree in UX Design & Interactive Environments opens the door to professions that are currently in full expansion. With the increasing digitalisation of our daily lives and the technologies integrated into our lifestyles, the service designer is involved in an increasingly wide range of fields.

Digitalisation is now impacting all sectors of activity, requiring us to change our connection to the world and rethink our uses in both the virtual and real worlds. Thus, in the corporate, commercial, private and public sectors, the user experience is at the centre of our concerns.

Accelerated by the current planetary context induced by the pandemic, the creation of new services has become the essential outcome for many fields to continue to exist, diversify and reinvent themselves. As a result, new fields of opportunity and sectors to be invested in for UX Design and interactive environments are emerging.

The UX designer is interested in the user's experience and designs interactive products or services that can take several forms: spaces, objects, environments and digital applications... thus linking the virtual to the real world.

WHAT SKILLS WILL YOU ACQUIRE?

Students analyse the market, work in the field in relation to users and rely on the designer's and interior architect's capacity for abstraction, strategic vision and mastery of representation and formalisation tools to design innovative services and implement a project strategy, from its conception to its completion.

Graduates will have the ability to manage an innovation project, both in terms of its basic strategy and its formal implementation. They will design the architecture of new services while mastering their material dimension. They will therefore work on graphic interfaces, objects and products and space.

At the end of the course, graduates will be able to:

Develop an interior architecture and design programme by analysing the client's request.
Design a solution based on the identification of trends and innovations, in order to promote it to the client.
Manage the implementation of a project and the activities of selected service providers and suppliers.

HOW DOES THE INTERIOR ARCHITECT - UX DESIGN & INTERACTIVE ENVIRONMENTS MASTER'S PROGRAMME AT LISAA PARIS WORK?

At the end of the first three years of the generalist Interior Architect & Designer programme offered by LISAA Paris, you will have obtained a Bachelor's degree. In the 4th year you can then choose to specialise in UX Design & Interactive Environments.

You will be able to complete your 5th year in a sandwich course. At the end of this 5th year, you can obtain a Master's degree.

The course is available in French or English.

Compulsory internships will take place during the 3rd and 4th years. However, it is possible (and encouraged) to undertake internships in the 1st or 2nd year.

SUPPORT FOR PROFESSIONALIZATION

LISAA Paris Interior Architecture & Design has set up a solid programme to support students in their professionalization. Students are monitored individually by the person in charge of professionalization, a member of the school's supervisory team, who helps them find their internships and work-study contracts.

The support takes several forms: individual meetings with each student to help them specify their professional project and professionalization workshops/courses from the 3rd year onwards where students learn how to create their LinkedIn profile, write their CV and cover letter, improve their diction with the Cours Florent (workshop on public speaking), source and respond to a job offer, etc. Coaching, interview simulations and job-dating are also offered to 4th year students in their search for a professional contract or apprenticeship within the framework of work-study.

FOR WHICH PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION?

The Interior Architecture & Design course at LISAA Paris validates two areas of competence, in interior architecture and design. The Institut Développement Arts Appliqués professional certification "Interior Architect/Designer" has been renewed at level 7 by France Compétences. Any registered person will be able to obtain the certification when registering in accordance with the set procedures. The certifying nature of the training and its relevance to the needs of the labour market are recognised by the State and the European Qualifications Framework.

Careers

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What kind of job can you do with a degree in architecture? What is the link with UX Design and interactive spaces? Here is the list of interior architect and designer jobs you can apply for with this master's degree:

Service designer

Product designer

The advantages of the Master's degree in Interior Architecture & Design - UX Design & Interactive Environments

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LISAA Paris is a school of interior architecture and design anchored in its time, always attentive to the contemporary world and its changes. The Interior Architecture & Design - UX Design & Interactive Environments Master's degree is a response to a certain context: digitalization, accelerated in times of pandemic, which requires us to change our relationship with the world and to rethink our uses.
LISAA immerses you in the professional world: you will work with companies or partner institutions on realistic or prospective projects, in an eco-design approach (CEEBIOS, L'Oréal, Cerema, Syctom, etc.)
LISAA is recognised by the Ministry of Culture.
LISAA Paris is also recognised and appreciated by professionals: recognised by the UNAID (National Union of Interior Designers), LISAA also benefits from a network of over 1,500 partner companies. LISAA also provides its students and alumni with a database of over 1,500 internship and job offers per year.
L'Étudiant ranks LISAA Paris among the best interior architecture and design schools in France: LISAA Paris is in its top 10 of interior architecture schools preferred by professionals and in its top 10 of product design schools preferred by professionals.
LISAA Paris has new premises of 2,500 m² and top-of-the-range equipment (large workshop, computer labs, fablab, laser cutters, 3D printers, photo studio, exhibition room, etc.)
LISAA's Paris School of Interior Design is located in the 13th arrondissement, a stone's throw from the national museums and cultural facilities of Paris. Enough to awaken your creativity!

The interior architecture & design course in figures

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95% certification rate
Rate of integration in 6 months 94% (2019)
Rate of integration into the target profession after 6 months 94% (2019)

Content of the Master's degree in Interior Architecture & Design - UX Design & Interactive Environments

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What subjects taught in architecture school can sharpen your eye for UX Design & Interactive Environments ? You will be able to take part in design workshops, learn design technology and programming/code interface design. You will also learn representation techniques, marketing and management skills, etc. You will complete a specialisation project and an internship.

The 5th year can be done in sandwich courses. You will continue the path and learning initiated in the 4th year.

Methods & evaluations

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LISAA's approach to teaching is geared to the progress of the student towards successful professional integration. To achieve this, it uses a variety of methods:

A project-based teaching method: individual or group work on real cases submitted by a partner company or on representative cases. The student presents his project report orally and in writing, accompanied by visuals and models. His or her presentation is evaluated by the trainers and or professionals from the partner company.
Training led by teachers who are working professionals and experts in their field.
Individual pedagogical follow-up allowing each student to situate him/herself in his/her progress towards the acquisition of skills and to prepare his/her project and professional integration.
Within the framework of the work-study programme, students benefit from support modules to help them find a company to sign a professional contract or an apprenticeship.
Meetings and conferences led by former students and professionals are organised at the school.
Internship periods are integrated into the training to allow students to develop their skills in the field.

Students are assessed throughout the course:

Role-playing exercises put the student in a situation of active listening and exchange with the client, allowing him/her to evaluate his/her negotiation skills in particular.
An oral presentation of the project file (30 to 40 minutes)
The student presents his/her project with the file worked on during the year of training, before a jury composed of professionals from outside the school. The jury will assess the student's professional attitude and the quality of the project in its visual presentation, its feasibility, its realism and its risk-taking...
Several case studies are proposed based on a real interior architecture or design project, putting the student in the position of project manager and allowing the evaluation of his or her ability to manage the realization of a project.
A report on experience and professional activity is presented, linked to the work placement or work-study programme.

The educational staff

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The teaching team is made up of working architecture and design professionals. They are constantly updating the content of their courses to keep up with the evolution of the profession and the job market.

Paul Jouan

Director of Studies - Interior Architecture & Design

Chantal Boëtte

Head of Educational Administration - Interior Architecture & Design

Julie Goulet

Head of Studies Bachelors - Interior Architecture & Design

Salma Navarre

Admissions manager - Interior Architecture & Design

Admissions

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ENROLMENT PROCEDURES

Admissions are made by appointment on presentation of work files. The results are communicated after the interview.

See entry requirements.

PREREQUISITES

Initial training:

5-year course: Pass an admission interview; Hold a baccalauréat.
4-year course: pass an admission interview; have completed and validated a 1st year at LISAA Interior Architecture & Design or at an approved partner preparing for the title or have validated a 1st year of teaching in the field;
3-year course: Pass an admission interview; Have completed and validated a 2nd year at LISAA Interior Architecture & Design or with a partner preparing for the title, or hold a level 5 title or diploma or have validated a 2nd year of teaching in the field;
2-year course: Pass an admission interview; Have completed and validated a 3rd year at LISAA Interior Architecture & Design or with a partner preparing for the title, or hold a level 6 title or diploma or have validated a 3rd year of teaching in the field;
1-year course: pass an admission interview; have completed and validated a 4th year at LISAA Interior Architecture & Design or at a partner company preparing for the title;

In apprenticeship or professionalization contract:

1-year course: Pass an admission interview; Hold a level 6 title or diploma and have completed a 4th year of teaching in the field; Or hold a level 5 title or diploma and provide proof of 2 years of professional experience in the field.

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ACCESSIBILITY FOR DISABLED PEOPLE

Any student or work-study student can ask for help from the disability advisor before or during the course to obtain advice and assistance in adapting the course, assessments and finding a host company.

Sandwich course

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Acquiring professional expertise is not only a matter of assimilating theoretical knowledge, but also of confronting this knowledge in the field. Quality professional training must allow students to explore the techniques and mechanisms involved in the professional world, whatever their specialisation, in order to present a profile in line with the requirements of employers looking for young talent.

LISAA offers a number of sandwich courses, apprenticeships and professional training contracts. Thus, students are available to companies for part of their training. Once they have graduated, they have a good level of qualification and significant professional experience which enables them to be fully operational in the structures that hire them.

LISAA's teaching teams support students in their research for work experience, particularly through a large network of partner companies, but also through the alumni network and during speed-recruiting sessions for sandwich students.

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