Design (Hons) Loughborough University

Overview

This programme is multi-disciplinary, highly creative, and intellectually stimulating; encouraging students to experiment with independent design judgement and creative risk taking. It is designed for students that are more open-minded about their career trajectory in design. The Design (Hons) degree programme is offered by Loughborough University .

Key Facts

• The programme fosters an experience-driven approach to design, building within students a creative, compassionate, and systemic mindset.
• Students can experiment with the design of a range of design outputs including physical products and objects, digital products and interfaces, digital and non-digital services, and the spaces and environments these might inhabit to creative positive economic, social, and environmental impact.
• The course develops students’ core design practice capabilities (both physical and digital) and exposes them to contemporary and future-facing design theory and practice including interaction and user experience design, service design and design futures.
• As a result of our outstanding industry links, students will engage in a range of live briefs set by leading UK and international consultancies and industry design teams. Students are also encouraged to enter competitions, and have been past winners of the James Dyson Awards, StarPack Awards, the RSA Student Design Awards, and the Ford Philanthropy Mobility Challenge. Several final year students are also selected to showcase their work at the esteemed New Designers exhibition in London.

Your future career:

• Our expertise is built upon the key design principles of aesthetics, technology, and understanding the user and their environment. We aim to maintain our reputation for creating highly employable design graduates, combining a rich history of industry engagement with the future opportunities of this modern design course.
• Graduates from this exciting Design BA course can pursue a variety of careers in consultancies and in-house design teams, working for industry, government, and NGO’s. Typical roles include industrial designer, UX designer, CX designer, service designer, retail and exhibition designer, brand consultant, user researcher, trends forecaster, design strategist, graduate design manager, creative director, and design director.