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User Experience (UX) design has expanded rapidly across a range of industry and educational contexts in the last decade. While the core knowledge and “centre” of UX is still emergent and contested, new educational programs to train the next generation of UX designers have begun to outline pedagogical practices and concepts that have relevance to the present and future of UX as a discipline. In this paper, we take a broad view of UX preparation, building on a case study of a global dual degree partnership between programs in the United States and China. We recount our individual experiences of building new programs in UX at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and the process of map** our curricula to offer a bidirectional dual degree program that launched in 2019.
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We express our sincere thanks for the efforts of staff from the International Affairs office of Bei**g Normal University and the Office of Globalization at Purdue University. We also thank our students at both universities for their valuable feedback and flexibility as we have established this dual degree program. We are eternally grateful to Dr. Hong Z. Tan for facilitating this partnership.
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Zhu, D., Gray, C.M., Toombs, A.L., Liu, C., Liu, W. (2022). Building a Cross-Cultural UX Design Dual Degree. In: Bruyns, G., Wei, H. (eds) [ ] With Design: Reinventing Design Modes. IASDR 2021. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4472-7_74
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