This course prepares you for an exciting career as a globally minded product or service designer. Through real-world projects and exploration of new materials and processes and systems, you’ll be equipped to identify and respond empathetically, sustainably, and collaboratively to creative opportunities and challenges. This course also allows you to specialise in and receive a different named award Product Design (Service Innovation) through focused project work in your final year. This course focuses on insight-driven design for future-facing products, services and experiences. You’ll learn to be globally-minded designers, seeking out future challenges, challenging convention and embracing creative risks. As the course progresses, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of the ecological, social and economic factors that all designers must consider when designing for diverse audiences and contexts.

During your placement year you will pay a reduced fee of £1,200.