UX Director and alumni Dan Nessler on his thirst for learning and why he shares
We met up with Dan and talked to him about his journey since graduating from Hyper Island.
MA Digital Management
Drive change by taking a fresh approach to problem solving, design thinking, business transformation and leadership.
Location
Manchester
Who takes this program?
Who will join you?
The MA Digital Management Programs participants are taken on a transformative journey to become a new kind of leader. One who is adaptive, collaborative and creatively driven. Who can go beyond conventional thinking practices to create effective teams and business value.
All of our students hold either a Bachelor’s degree or have a minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience.
Format
What you'll be doing
This is a full-time program based at our Manchester campus. You’ll learn through a range of interactive talks, hands-on workshops, team challenges, and deep reflection.
The program has six practical group projects led by industry practitioners and one independent research project. 24 weeks will be spent in School and 20-weeks in Industry during your research project.
Modules
8 areas of study
- Foundation Days
Build your team and create a group culture, learn the Hyper Island methodology and develop skills to enhance your creativity.
- Creativity Week
Discover idea generation techniques and essential research methods under the guidance of program leaders.
- Design Thinking
Explore design thinking tools and processes, including looking at other related areas such as service design and human-centred design.
- Digital Technologies
Recognize digital technologies as enablers for change and grasp the basic concepts involved both from a theoretical and practical hands-on perspective.
- Business Transformation
Take an in-depth look at business model development. Work with cutting-edge business modeling techniques, case studies, and user journeys.
- Managing Projects and Teams
Explore the project lifecycle and consider projects from a holistic perspective. Takes place during the entire on-site part of the program and is built on your project and professional work.
- Innovation Project
We challenge you to apply all your previous learnings and create your own project which aims to show innovation in the development of new ideas or transformation of existing ideas in an area of digital management.
- Industry Research Project
Find a problem in your industry and work to solve it. In place of the traditional Master’s thesis, you will identify a problem, prototype solutions, and share insights based on your research.
Alumni
Student Stories
A Learner’s Journey: Q&A with Eunice Hong
A Senior Designer at Proctor & Gamble and a part-time Masters student at Hyper Island shares her thoughts on her passions in the digital world.
‘Hyper Island slows things down for people coming from an industry where constant speed is a problem.’
We met with Interactive Art Director student Dagny from Iceland
It’s probably one of the best decisions I’ve made. Without the MA, I’d probably still be wondering why things are changing around me instead of being a part of them.
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Aimee Tasker
Service Designer, Common Good