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Emerging Design Courses: UX/UI, Interaction Design, and Beyond – Career Paths and Opportunities

Team Careers360Updated on 26 Jun 2025, 03:22 PM IST

Design operates with a dual purpose: It ‘serves’ by enriching human life through practical solutions and leads’ by challenging norms and inspiring a better future. Traditionally, Interaction Design (IxD) education emphasised service, but today’s complex challenges demand a shift. Designers now face multifaceted issues requiring them to engage diverse stakeholders, understand varied needs and synthesise cohesive solutions. This necessitates skills beyond traditional UX/UI, demanding designers who can navigate complexity.

Emerging Design Courses: UX/UI, Interaction Design, and Beyond – Career Paths and Opportunities
Emerging Design Courses: UX/UI, Interaction Design, and Beyond – Career Paths and Opportunities

In ‘Living with Complexity,’ Don Norman argues that complexity reflects the interconnectedness of systems. Embracing this requires a shift in learning, fostering curiosity and inquiry into underlying reasons. Anant National University’s Interaction Design programme adopts a forward-thinking approach, moving beyond linear thinking and emphasising critical elements. The curriculum at Anant National University integrates emerging technologies and nuanced IxD understanding.

Key courses include:

  • Multi-Sensory Design: This goes beyond visual/auditory design, incorporating other senses for immersive experiences and gesture-based communication.
  • Speculative Design: Students design alternative futures, fostering a pluralistic worldview.
  • Creative Coding and Data-Driven Design: These courses integrate analytics and coding into design systems.
  • Research in Context: This introduces societal challenges via qualitative research.

This dynamic learning environment fosters agility, cross-disciplinary collaboration, experimentation and the development of an individual voice. Anant’s Interaction Design programme also emphasises:

  • Cultivating a unique design voice
  • Mastering collaboration
  • Nurturing the ability to imagine

These fundamentals are crucial for adapting to evolving markets and leading towards a better future.

Emerging Career Pathways for IxD Graduates

The programme’s focus on diverse skills and complexity prepares graduates for future-oriented careers, including:

  • Immersive Experience Designer: Creating VR/AR/MR experiences and interactive installations.
  • Speculative/Foresight Designer: Envisioning alternative futures and strategic innovation.
  • Data Experience Designer: Visualising data and designing data-driven applications.
  • Interaction Design Strategist: Defining design strategies and leading innovation.
  • Ethical UX Designer: Focusing on ethical considerations and inclusive design.
  • AI Interaction Designer: Designing human-AI interactions.
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These roles, alongside traditional paths like UX/UI Designer, Service Designer and Design Researcher, demonstrate Interaction Design’s expanding influence.

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About Anant National University

Anant National University, India’s first DesignX university, is dedicated to training students to devise solutions for global problems. The X in Design X is the symbol drawn from mathematics, representing enhancement. This new learning approach multiplies traditional design pedagogy with liberal arts disciplines, emerging technologies and knowledge drawn from hands-on community experiences to help understand our world better and to devise impactful solutions.

Our multidisciplinary undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programmes in design, architecture, climate action, and visual arts harness knowledge from various disciplines and traditional practices to integrate it with cutting-edge technology to address diverse challenges. We train our designers to become solutionaries — revolutionary thinkers with a solution-oriented mindset.

Anant National University has been awarded the prestigious ‘5-Star Rating’ in the category of Architecture and a ‘4-Star Rating’ in the University category in the Gujarat State Institutional Rating Framework (GSIRF) 2023-24. This recognition reinforces our commitment to creating a world-class institution of great eminence and excellence.

Disclaimer: This article has been published as a collaboration between Careers360 and Anant National University.

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hi,

anant national university has established on 2016, It was established in 2016 by the Laxman Gyanpith Trust through The Gujarat Private Universities Act, 2016. however based on location wise placement statistics anant national university gujrat branch has highest placement record. based on placement statistics of sector wise, design area has 10% placement among total placement record of sector  wise of anant national university.

however I can not suggest anant university as a tier 1 institute till now, since this is quite new university. so you should search for others university or institute which are atleast 10 years old.

some of the best interior design institute in gujrat is as follows:


Inter National Institute of Fashion Design, Baroda. Vadodara.

Rai University. Ahmedabad.

MSU - The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. Vadodara.

hope it would help.