I agree with others against getting a second bachelor’s. Not because it’s a wrong but b/c consider what you’re asking yourself in terms of money. If you’ve ever had a high loan, or been in credit debt, then you’ll know how painful it is to have a loan. It’s usually $200 you’ll have to pay every month for a good amount of time. Unless you’re going w/ a full-ride scholarship or you’re fortunate enough to have your parents pay for a second bachelor’s, you’re better off going to a Master’s program that is expecting you to not have any experience. Employers don’t care about education as much as you think you do. They really do just want to see a portfolio, someone who’s flexible and open to criticism, and a good transcript b/c the transcript tells them you’ll show up time and do the effort and that’s it. Once you get hired, you’re not going to be used for your history and all that “foundational” stuff. It’s nice for you to have and you’ll be reading articles and books and stuff for your benefit, but for them, they don’t care.
Undergrad is actually about teaching you HOW to learn. The foundations are so that they have some material to teach you these techniques. If you don’t know how to educate yourself, then you’re 1st undergrad school wasn’t a success. So what that means is, instead of saying I don’t have the foundations in history and art, I need to go back to school, what you should be saying is I don’t have the foundations in history and art and I need to do some reading on these without having to lean back on “mommy & daddy” aka undergrad school. That’s all they’re going to do to you anyway when you go back to school- assign you readings and then repeat everything you read last night in today’s lecture. You’re best off networking- talking to people to see what you need and going to events to put yourself in that environment, and doing any history reading on your own. For art foundations- art is all about practice. Just do projects for yourself over and over. Take a community college class, etc. For human-centered design, there’s a course by UCSD on coursera.org, also for free. (edX is another open and free online education. Linda is not free but is may have something. Linda or Lynda? I forget, but it’s created by Linkedin.) I heard MIT also launched a free online education program as well called open courseware. Then after talking to people and seeing what technical skills you need, you can use sites like Udemy to learn about the software. (I’m not promoting. These are just sites I’m recommending b/c they’re all I know.) In fact, you can do all this in the 1 year it’s going to take for your to apply to graduate programs and hear back from them. That should catch you up. And that’s what you undergrad should’ve taught you- how and where to find information you need for any subject. You shouldn’t have to go back to school and pay 60K only for a teacher to give you a list of books for you to read when you should be able to do all that on your own now.
Most of all, don’t think as masters’ as being the end of the line, but if you really feel like you can’t do it on your own, consider an AA from a community college. It’ll be cheaper. The curriculum might not be what you want, so you’ll have to look into that.
Do look more into masters. I was in your position, thinking a 2nd bachelor’s would be the way to go. Then I saw I’m not eligible for any grants, which would mean loans from undergrad and masters school (there are no grants for masters too and most companies that help pay only pay a small portion of your education), and I said forget that. I should look into masters more, like you, and now that I have been, I’m not looking back. It’s the same amount of time, something you’re going to want to do anyway, will teach you the same stuff, just at a quicker pace, and will give you a higher pay raise. Wow, this is a really long post. Sorry!
Best of luck!