- Mobile Applications | Hyper Island

Mobile Applications is a 60-week program for you who want to design and develop applications for mobile devices. This program focuses on developing your design and technical skills, but with a parallel focus on idea generation, entrepreneurship and how to turn your ideas into applications with high usability.

The program is carried out in close collaboration with the industry. To keep you updated on the latest knowledge and trends and you will always work with tasks that are based on real industry demand.

The program includes:

- Mobile Concept Development - idea generation, concept development, presentation technique and user experience
- Prototyping,
- Mobile Design – interface design and interaction design,
- Mobile Development – testing, optimisation, etc,
- Mobile Business – budgeting, business models and cost and time estimation,
- A 16-week internship, probably at one of the 600 companies in Hyper Island’s global network.

Since the program focuses not only on the tech and design aspects, but also on entrepreneurial knowledge and business strategies you can get a top job in the industry, but you are also given the tools on how to make it on your own.

After graduating you will be able to work as an applications designer or developer, creative director digital producer etc anywhere in the world with the ability to:
- Design a mobile application or game, including preparing a business plan for its publication and work plan for its development,
- Understand how to create a profit from mobile devices,
- Identify start-up opportunities in the applications market,
- Identify a team of people, technical resources and other assets required to complete a mobile application project.

The Hyper Island Way

At Hyper Island we don’t have any teachers, no homework, no schoolbooks, and definitely no tests. We build our programs on experience-based learning. This means that instead of going to ‘class’ you will be going to interactive sessions and workshops where we bring in industry players from around the globe. Creators, executives and strategists will help you challenge yourself and find your own solution to real problems.

You will almost exclusively work in teams, giving a lot of attention to the group process and how working together boosts creativity. At Hyper Island there is no right or wrong. Our method focuses on learning through trial and error, something that we believe promotes your personal and professional development. We set up the framework, but the responsibility how to use it lies with you!

Be prepared to go on a fun, frustrating and life changing educational journey. Apply now. No prerequisites are needed.

"Looking at the extremely fast growth of this industry, there is no doubt that the industry will need talented people with the right type of education. There will always be a demand to develop better new solutions and concepts that are more user friendly."
- Michael Cruseman, Marketing Manager apegroup

For further information, please contact Matilda Sundåker