Professional Programme
Interaction & Product Design
Portfolio-first, but not portfolio-only: every project is judged on whether a person could complete the task, not on how the case study reads.
Duration14 months · full-time
ModeOn campus, Thessaloniki
IntakeSeptember
Fee€5,600 total
What you will be able to do
- Research a task well enough to know what the user is actually trying to do
- Design an interface that survives real content, real errors and real screen sizes
- Build a prototype that behaves like the product, not like a picture of it
- Write interface copy that does not need explaining
- Hand work to engineers without a translation layer
Modules
| Term 1 | Foundations Typography, hierarchy, grid, colour, accessibility and contrast. |
| Term 1 | Research Interviews, observation, task analysis, and the discipline of writing down what you heard. |
| Term 2 | Interaction States, flows, error design, forms, empty states, loading. |
| Term 2 | Prototyping HTML/CSS and design tools, motion that explains rather than decorates. |
| Term 3 | Product work Working with a brief, a deadline and an engineer; scope negotiation. |
| Term 3 | Portfolio Three projects documented honestly, including what failed. |
Northgate awards a certificate of completion for this programme. It is not a degree, and it does not carry accreditation from a national higher-education authority.