Program Goal
Training of designers with a wide competencies range for creating new products that meet the challenges and needs of the 21st century.
What master students do?
- Get design skills, improve their knowledge of technologies: IT, animation, VR, AR, layout, printing;
- Learn how to bring a design product to market;
- Implement projects in urban design, Museum design, social design etc.
- Participate in workshops, competitions, practices;
Advantages:
- Individual research and project trajectories
- Soft skills in the project practice incorporated
- Cooperation with company representatives
- Project-based learning
- Balance between commercial and social design
Partners
- SIMA Land company, Igrushka Marker company
- Ural optical-mechanical plant
- WTF?! Advertising agency
- Ural Fashion Week
- Ekaterinburg`s History Museum
- Ural Region Museum of Local History
- Social Festival “Choose life”
- Publishing House “Cabinet scientist”
- NGO “Association of the river Chusovaya heritage” (NGO)
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Courses
- Design thinking
- Design algorithms
- Human-centered and inclusive design
- Infographics
- Animation technologies
- Typography
- Layout techniques
- Visual identity systems
- Photography for designers
Career after the Program
- Project offices and project departments
- Exhibition centers, Museums, cultural institutions
- AD agencies, publishing houses
- Municipal administration
- Noncommercial sector, education
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Students research projects examples
The dissertation is: research + project. Daria Sukhanova, 2019

Work with a social focus. Julia Lipuntsova, 2018

Макsim Nikolaev, 2019. Name of the project: Design of virtual reality for educational programs oriented to autistic children
Description of the project tasks: Determination of virtual environment parameters (color, style, dynamics) of digital application for mentally-challenged pupils (autistic children shrink from society, dislike some surfaces and colors, react adversely to any new things and people)

Program administration
Program`s Scientific Head
- Tatiana Bystrova
- Doctor of philosophy, professor of design at UrFU
- Author of the 400 publications, Head of the UrFU research team “Open сity: from theoretical concept to innovative design”
- Honorary Worker of RF Higher Vocational Education
- She trained 50 master students
- E-mail:
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Chair of Design and Culture
- Olga GAN
- Head of the chair
- PhD
- professor at the Ural Federal University
- E-mail:
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Program Manager
- Melnikova Svetlana
- PhD
- field of interest - visual communications
- E-mail:
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Entrance tests
- Esse
- The special test with visual material
- Portfolio
- Interview
Contacts
- Ekaterinburg, Lenina av. 51; Mira st, 19, а. И-314
- Tel.: +7 (343) 375-93-24
- E-mail:
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