Course summary

• Learn the skills you need to become a professional product or service designer.
• Create visually compelling and innovative products and engaging service experiences.
• Develop real-world experience working on live projects with global brands.
• Benefit from exceptional connections with relevant industry and professional networks

This course prepares you for an exciting career as a globally-minded designer, equipped to identify and respond empathetically, sustainably and collaboratively to creative opportunities.

How you learn

All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.

Through studio-based learning and working on live projects, you'll gain a deep understanding of design culture and practice. You'll learn how to take creative risks and create innovative, viable, user-centred and sustainable designs – while also developing your own personal approach and career aspirations. You'll develop collaborative skills through interdisciplinary projects, as well as engaging globally with our established partner institutions in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

You’ll learn through

• studio-based design projects
• technical workshops
• lectures and seminars
• authentic work experiences and placements
• live design projects
• field trips
• presentations and feedback sessions
• studio-based design projects
• Blackboard online learning portal
• self-directed study

Future careers

This course prepares you for future study and careers in

• product design
• user experience/user interface and service design
• design consultancy
• consumer insight and brand strategy
• strategic innovation
• running your own business
• designing and making
• digital visualisation
• education
• sales
• marketing