Product Design, BA (Hons)

Products, services, systems: three small words with a galaxy of applications. From TVs to trainers, we’ll help you navigate the evolving world of product design, growing your technical, practical, and interpersonal skills along the way.Our teachers don’t just teach. They’re collaborators, constantly encouraging you to develop your own unique design style. We’ll plug you into the industry from day one; you’ll be pushing live briefs to the edge of your imagination as you explore the needs of users, markets, and manufacturers. You’ll create with your mind, your hands, and cutting-edge software.You’ll learn how designers guide projects as visionaries and leaders, and as the glue between specialists. You’ll be part of a studio culture that builds confidence through community, developing your work from preliminary sketches to fully functioning prototypes. Through competitions and exhibitions, you’ll have the chance to meet and impress some of the biggest names in the game.We’ve built this course in consultation with product design’s most influential employers. We know what they want, and that’s what we teach: with hard work and creative bravery, you could be following our global network of alumni to the likes of Adidas, Puma, Sony, Speedo, the BBC, Habitat, MADE.COM, and Matter.Key FeaturesProfessional Accreditation | Our course is accredited by the Chartered Society of Designers (CSD), recognising the quality and relevance of our course content. It also means you can become a student member of the CSD for free whilst studying.Live Projects | You’ll work on live project briefs with real industry clients. We’ve already welcomed the likes of Nestlé, PepsiCo, W'innovate, Herman Miller and Speedo onto the course, and that list of big-time industry partners is growing all the time.Exhibitions and Shows | Exhibit and get yourself noticed! Events like New Designers and NTU’s annual Degree Show are annual fixtures in the product design calendar, and our grads have won big at external competitions like the Starpack Awards and Student Design Innovation Awards.