{"id":362,"date":"2020-05-20T13:08:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T17:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/?page_id=362"},"modified":"2025-09-29T15:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:32:11","slug":"graphic-design","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/graphic-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Graphic &amp; Experience Design"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Our program continues to have great success preparing students for careers in user experience and user interface design (UX\/UI), an area of growth and opportunity. Our students engage in digital prototyping, typography, user research, and service design. We create interfaces, digital products, and information visualizations that are embedded in larger experiences. Students learn human-centered research methods to ensure that these experiences focus on user needs and desires, thus empowering the people who interact with them. The NC State Bachelor of Graphic and Experience Design (BGXD) is consistently recognized as one of the top NASAD accredited design programs in the country. Alumni are designers in software companies and leading design firms (such as IBM, Red Hat, SAS, Lenovo, Citrix, IQVIA, Pentagram, IDEO, Willowtree, and R\/GA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Graphic &amp; Experience Designers:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Visualize, prototype, and produce digital products, websites, apps, identity systems, and wayfinding.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Envision and promote healthy human-machine teaming with AI.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Employ human-centered research methods to understand and inform design decisions.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Develop strategies and systems for making experiences more accessible to users.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Collaborate with other experts, such as software engineers, ethnographers, data scientists, psychologists, and project managers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Explore emerging technologies\u2014data visualization, virtual reality, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"ncst-labeled-section wp-block-ncst-featured-content ncst-featured-content is-card-style layout-two-column\">\n  <div class=\"ncst-labeled-section__background\">\n    <div class=\"ncst-labeled-section__container\">\n             <div class=\"ncst-labeled-section__content\">\n        \n<div class=\"wp-block-ncst-featured-content\"><a\n    class=\"ncst-content-card wp-block-ncst-content-card with-image with-cta\"\n    href=\"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/graphic-design\/academics\/bachelor\/\"\n  >\n  \n\n          <div class=\"content-card__image-container\">\n        <div class=\"content-card__image-background\">\n          <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"844\"\n            class=\"content-card__image wp-image-23682\"\n            alt=\"students working on daela project\"\n            src=\"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/graphic-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2021\/06\/MVIMG_20191107_132455.jpg\"\n            style=\"aspect-ratio: 16\/9; 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Six graduate student presenters share the societal challenges that motivate them to Think and Do.<\/span><span class=\"arrow-indicator\"><svg class=\"wolficon wolficon-arrow-right-light\" role=\"img\"  aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<use xlink:href=\"#wolficon-arrow-right-light\">\n\t\t<\/svg><\/span><\/p>\n\t      \t    \n          <\/div>\n\n  <\/a>\n<a\n    class=\"ncst-content-card \"\n    href=\"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/graphic-design\/2025\/06\/10\/spring-2025-designlife-magazine\/\"\n  >\n  \n\n          <div class=\"content-card__image-container\">\n        <div class=\"content-card__image-background\">\n          <img decoding=\"async\"\n            class=\"content-card__image wp-image-25272\"\n            alt=\"Designlife magazine cover 2025\"\n            src=\"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/graphic-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/06\/dlm-feature-2-web.jpg\"\n            style=\"aspect-ratio: 16\/9; object-fit: cover; \"\n          \/>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"content-card__text-container\">\n              <p class=\"content-card__meta\">\n                      <span class=\"content-card__date\">June 10, 2025<\/span>\n                            <\/p>\n      \n                        <h3 class=\"content-card__headline\">Spring 2025 Designlife Magazine<\/h3>\n              \n\n              \n\t      \t        <p class=\"content-card__teaser\"><span class=\"text\">The spring issue of Designlife magazine is here! Explore this issue for stories on the magazine&#8217;s new look and feel, the incredible work done by faculty, students and alumni and&hellip;<\/span><span class=\"arrow-indicator\"><svg class=\"wolficon wolficon-arrow-right-light\" role=\"img\"  aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<use xlink:href=\"#wolficon-arrow-right-light\">\n\t\t<\/svg><\/span><\/p>\n\t      \t    \n          <\/div>\n\n  <\/a>\n\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"see-student-work\">See Student Work<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>See more examples of student work here:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/graphic-design\/students\/work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Department of Graphic Design Student Work<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" id=\"soliloquy-container-23351_1\" class=\"soliloquy-container soliloquy-transition-fade  soliloquy-theme-base\" style=\"max-width:1500px;max-height:1071px;\"><ul id=\"soliloquy-23351_1\" 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