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Applied Information
Technologies - Digital Design
and Interactive Technologies
Duration:
3 years (6 semesters)
3 years (6 semesters)
Number of ECTS credits:
180 ECTS
180 ECTS
Professional title:
Bachelor of Applied Science in Digital Design and Interactive Technologies
Bachelor of Applied Science in Digital Design and Interactive Technologies
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What career follows after completing this study
program?
Through this program, students acquire a wide range of skills and technologies, thus opening doors to various lucrative careers in the digital world, including:
Companies that hire our students are most commonly specialized in software development and IT innovations. In addition to these, companies from other sectors such as finance, government, healthcare institutions, or sectors like manufacturing, marketing, and design, which have their own products in the market and a need for engineers in user interface design, user experience, and graphic design on their teams, also hire our students.
Subjects
CREDITS: 7.5
Exploration of designers, artists, and philosophers who have been significant in transforming our perspectives and thinking. Introduction to the components of each design project: typography, color, form, grids, and structure. Uncovering the fundamental principles of layout and composition for screen media, as well as sketching techniques and visual genres in digital media design.
CREDITS: 7.5
Learning techniques for creating unique high-quality illustrations, diagrams, graphics, and logos for a wide range of media – from academic posters to events and marketing materials, utilizing key features of Adobe Illustrator, by applying fundamental design principles.
CREDITS: 7.5
The ability to visualize creative ideas is fundamental to the processes of designing and producing events and experiences. The skills learned in this subject will be required, developed, and applied in many other subsequent subjects.
CREDITS: 7.5
Building a strong foundation for image processing, including sampling and reconstruction, linear filters, and geometric operations such as rotation and image distortion, with an emphasis on efficient and precise implementations. Learning techniques for manipulating the gradient domain, fast edge-preserving filters, image alignment, and image segmentation using graphs.
CREDITS: 7.5
The aim of this subject is to introduce students to the fundamental principles of typography (the science) and inspire them to cultivate their typographic expression skills (the art).
CREDITS: 7.5
The objective of this subject is to acquaint students with Adobe InDesign, an industry-leading software for designing pages for print and digital media. Students will acquire the software skills necessary for creating and publishing various types of materials, from printed and digital materials to interactive online documents. Additionally, they will be empowered to devise design solutions through careful visual communication.
CREDITS: 7.5
Through this subject, students will learn about the characteristics of a successful and cohesive brand identity system. They will discover how to implement brand design across a wide range of applications for both print and interactive media, as well as how to create a comprehensive set of graphic standards.
CREDITS: 7.5
The focus of this subject is to implement everything learned in previous subjects through a real-world project. This will enable students to apply their acquired skills in practical, real-life situations.
CREDITS: 7.5
Students will learn how to empathize with users and understand their issues, define user needs by creating empathy maps, user personas, user stories, and user journey maps in order to comprehend their requirements.
CREDITS: 7.5
Through this subject, students will acquire mathematical methods and tools to analyze the entire spectrum of data typically processed in user experience, from quantitative research and user testing data analysis to big data web analytics.
CREDITS: 7.5
When studying this subject, students will begin by creating narratives and familiarizing themselves with the fundamentals of drawing. They will learn how to work in the design tool Figma and in Miro.
CREDITS: 7.5
This subject introduces students to quantitative and qualitative research methods specific to user experience design. Students will learn to create target personas and refine content based on user feedback to provide recommendations for product and service design. Teamwork and collaboration are key aspects in mastering the skills required for this subject.
CREDITS: 7.5
In this subject, students will learn the components of an interface and explore the design elements used to create consistent and effective user interfaces. They will delve deeper into the fundamentals and principles of visual design, including typography and color, and discover design patterns and trends before creating and evaluating prototypes.
CREDITS: 7.5
Through this subject, students will learn how to create a usability testing plan, including defining its objectives and all the metrics they want to use for their usability tests. Based on this, they will develop a usability testing protocol by selecting tasks and composing task instructions that their users should follow.
CREDITS: 7.5
The focus of this subject is to implement everything learned in previous subjects through a real-world project. This will enable students to apply their acquired skills in practical, real-life situations.
CREDITS: 7.5
With this subject, through industry examples, students will become acquainted with processes, ideation, goals and tasks, strategies, tactics, and rapid prototyping. They will explore various creative problem-solving techniques that can be applied in future subjects.
CREDITS: 7.5
This subject teaches students to create designs for commercial packaging. Emphasis is placed on problem-solving, aesthetics, form, and function of product packaging. Students will be able to generate design solutions that encompass various packaging styles.
CREDITS: 7.5
This subject will focus on learning how to implement the principles of interactive web design. Students will learn how to implement and use HTML and CSS to create web pages in accordance with standards and accessibility.
CREDITS: 7.5
This subject introduces students to various methodologies for designing digital games. Students will focus on key topics such as design, sketching, and prototyping. Analytical approaches to the multi-layered relationship between art and digital games are explored, building awareness of the complex nature of digital games and their status among digital arts.
CREDITS: 7.5
This subject focuses on Adobe After Effects, the software for digital motion graphics and compositing used by professionals in film and television post-production. Techniques for finalizing processing will be covered, including image adjustments, color correction, and output settings for various media.
CREDITS: 7.5
This subject introduces students to the fundamentals of JavaScript and its application in various JavaScript libraries. Students will learn to design and develop their interactive components and interfaces, expanding the capabilities beyond what web design languages like HTML and CSS allow on their own.
CREDITS: 7.5
This subject will enable students to build 3D models in a digital environment by leveraging both theoretical and technical foundations. They will acquire skills in 3D modeling using Maya, along with techniques to enhance their work. Additionally, they will learn how to generate video files using their finished designs.
CREDITS: 7.5
This subject offers students the opportunity to strengthen their proficiency in areas considered essential for all professionals, including those focused on soft skills. Through this subject, students will develop the skills and knowledge necessary to enhance their employability.
CREDITS: 7.5
The digital era has transformed the communication process, demanding new business strategies, efficient planning, and a keen understanding of the latest dimensions of technological advancement. Through this subject, students will become acquainted with well-structured integrated marketing strategies, methodical, critical, and planned perspectives on how to effectively utilize new techniques in the real digital business environment.
CREDITS: 7.5
This subject facilitates the development of an entrepreneurial mindset and equips students with the latest knowledge and skills vital for value generation in a knowledge-based economy. With a strong future-oriented focus, realized through forecasting both in finance and marketing, the subject will provide them with the essential toolset for commercial opportunity realization.
CREDITS: 7.5
This subject will help students learn how to initiate projects from mere ideas. They will gain the ability to discover best practices for product design, implement product management principles, and learn how to communicate their ideas to a broad audience effectively.
CREDITS: 7.5
Part of the skills developed through
these subjects:
- Working in Illustrator
- Working in Photoshop
- Working in InDesign
- Brand Identity Design
- Motion Design
- Game Development
- 3D Modeling
-
Prototyping and wireframe
creation
- Working in Figma
- Methods for Analysis and Research
- Creating Information Architecture
- User Experience Testing
Teaching staff and associates
Damjan Obal
Damjan Obal lives and works in Norway. He has over 20 years of work and research experience in the field of interactive graphic and UX design in Western Europe, and two doctorates from renowned world universities - one specifically in the field of Game & Interactive Media Design (University of Lapland), and the other in Computer science - HCI & UX (University of Maribor).
Dijana Dimitrievska
Graduated mechanical engineer with a specialty in industrial design and 10 years of experience in the field of graphic design. She has worked on campaigns and products for the largest companies from Macedonia, including Telecom, Pivara, Tikvesh, Ladna, EVN, Vitaminka, Toyota. She is currently the CDO at Brainster as well as a mentor at the Brainster Academy of Graphic Design.
Martina Mitz
Martina Mitz lives and works in Germany and is a certified psychologist and UX specialist whose experience and professionalism in the field of UX design and web interfaces can be seen in the work for globally renowned companies such as Volkswagen, T-Online, eBay, PayPal, Emirates Airlines, Cortal Consors (BNP Paribas) and many others.
Petar Jolakoski
Mathematician, statistician and expert in econometrics, who expands his knowledge in these areas in the field of data science and advanced methods of data analysis. The desire to research and transfer his knowledge translates into his work experience as a junior researcher at MANU and a lecturer and assistant at the Faculty of Economics and at Brainster.
Tomi Boshkovski
Doctor of Science and assistant at the polytechnic faculty at the University of Montreal (Canada), with a specialty in the field of neuroscience and information technologies. He builds his experience as a lecturer, researcher and professional with a primary focus on the use of technology and software solutions in the medical sciences. He is currently collaborating with QMENTA Inc. from Barcelona, Spain as a consulting Neuroimaging Engineer.
Nikola Kusibojoski
Experienced web developer, particularly proficient in Back-End technologies. He has rich work experience as a backend developer and full-stack developer and consultant in several companies. Since 2019, he has been working at "Loka" - a Silicon Valley company, as a full-stack developer. As one of the first employees of this company, which today has more than 150 people worldwide, he had the opportunity to fully apply his knowledge of web programming in the construction of several significant projects.
Ivica
Pesovski
Innovator and expert in the field of software engineering, with special emphasis on the development of applicative solutions and products in the field of education. PhD student in computer engineering and informatics with more than 8 years of experience in the IT industry, CTO of Brainster and an experienced lecturer and instructor. 
Gorjan Popovski
Experienced Data Scientist, Master of Information and Communication Sciences at Jozef Stefan International Postgraduate School, from Ljubljana. His fields of interest are natural language processing, machine learning, deep learning, data science, as well as data analysis, software and algorithm development, optimization... He has extensive work experience as a data scientist in several Macedonian and international companies, a consultant in machine learning, but also experience as a lecturer in several areas that are also his field of scientific and research activity. He is also a lecturer at Brainster's Data Science Academy.
Anja M. Makeska
She is currently dedicated to the Executive MBA program, dual degree York University + University of Strasbourg. She has a master's degree in the field of financial management with two completed faculties, for international relations in Sofia and legal sciences in Skopje. She has worked as a scientific researcher and is also active in non-formal education as a lecturer at Brainster Academies. She works with students on innovative real projects, career counseling and soft skills training. She also has experience in entrepreneurship, he is the founder of one startup and co-founder of another.
Marko Karbevski
An expert in the field of machine learning, deep learning and data science who acquired his expertise at the prestigious Sorbonne University where he obtained a master's degree in the field of Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory and is building his professional career and research portfolio in renowned companies and institutions around the world Europe.
Darjan Radenkovic
An expert in the field of digital marketing and communications with more than 8 years of experience in this field, with a special focus on the development of digital marketing strategies, the use of digital technical tools in marketing and business operations. Darjan also has many years of managerial experience as Chief Marketing Officer of Brainster, Chief Business Development Officer of VidiVaka and several other management positions in well-known Macedonian companies.
Dragan Dimitrov
Partner in BDO Macedonia, with over 20 years of professional experience in the field of auditing and corporate finance. Certified auditor, financial forensic expert, and authorized appraiser, who also works as a consultant and trainer of candidates for taking the IAS/IFRS exams in Macedonia.
Pece Angelkovski
Entrepreneur, business strategy consultant and "business angel" who in his 15 years of experience has managed over 50 technology-related projects, and is the founder of several companies that are actively engaged in the development of games, mobile applications, enterprise management software and systems with use of artificial intelligence (4F Studios, X3M Labs, HealthUp.io, M3 Medical, etc.)
Robin Zimbakov
A successful entrepreneur who, at the age of 19. founded one of the most successful companies in our country. Soloprom, in which he holds the role of executive director until today. In addition, he is also the founder of Miniso, and he shares his many years of experience with young entrepreneurs and innovators and is part of the CEED club of "business angels".
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