Product Design and Innovation Maynooth University

Overview

Key Features 

• Studio subjects cover visualisation, freehand drawing and rendering, computer modelling and digital rendering, as well as model making and prototyping using a range of traditional and digital tools.
• The interdisciplinary nature of the programme allows students to explore design through engineering, business, and social innovation perspectives. This prepares graduates to address complex design problems that require creative thinking, technical understanding, and commercial awareness.
• Academic staff include experienced designers and entrepreneurs with expertise across a range of industries, including medical devices, consumer services, electronics, user interfaces, sports equipment, and homeware.

Career Options

• Product designers shape how we interact with products, services, and systems. As design plays a key role in addressing technological and social change, the BSc in Product Design and Innovation prepares students to think critically, act creatively, and collaborate effectively across the fields of design, engineering, and business.
• Graduates of Product Design and Innovation programme at the Maynooth University are equipped with the skills and knowledge to contribute to a wide range of fields, including Product Design, User Experience and User Interaction (UX/UI) Design, Service Design, Medical Device Development, Furniture and Homeware Design, Digital Marketing, User Research, and roles focused on Design-Led Innovation.