Course overview

  • Starts: Sep 2025
  • Duration: 3 years
  • Mode: Full time
  • UCAS code: W240
  • Fees: UK: £9,535 (2025/26) / INT: £17,000 (2025/26)

Ideal for...practical, 'hands-on' learners who want to know how to create design solutions and build a career as a product designer.

A vision for innovation.

Ready to bring your ideas to life? This Product Design degree in London enables you to explore ergonomics, aesthetics and sustainability to produce an industry-ready portfolio.

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Why study this product design degree?

  1. Learn to communicate your design work by building physical and digital prototypes, sketches, design documents, renders and pitch presentations
  2. Join a cohort of multi-award-winning students
  3. Strong industry links, live client projects and internships
  4. Great staff to student ratio with unrivalled access to tutors
  5. Gain industry ready skills with our cutting-edge, open-access prototyping studios
  6. Develop original ideas and deliver detailed designs ready for production
  7. Learn to recognise opportunities for designing innovative products for the future.

In this hands-on Product Design course at Ravensbourne University London, you’ll define problems and opportunities through cutting-edge research and analysis, develop original ideas with creative thinking, and deliver detailed designs ready for production. 

Predominantly project-based, you’ll study the functional and market-led requirements of product design from concept to production, looking at ergonomics, aesthetics, usability, sustainability, intellectual property and the application of technology. You’ll also learn to communicate your design work engagingly through prototypes, sketches, design documents, renders and pitch presentations.

Live projects with illustrious brands will give you real-world design experience. Our professionally-active lecturers and technicians will offer exceptional industry insight and enable you to identify areas where design could have a significant and positive impact in social, economic and environmental contexts. You will also gain access to unrivalled, state-of-the-art prototyping and 3D printing equipment. 

When you graduate from BA Hons Product Design, you will have the tools to develop products that push boundaries, so you can thrive in this innovative sector. 
 

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Key study topics

  • Usability
  • Aesthetics
  • Ergonomics
  • Sustainability
  • Application of technology
  • Concept generation
  • User research: how to understand people's needs
  • Prototyping.

The specifics

Alumni stories

Alumni story

How to Succeed as a UX consultant in Product Design by Julie Zoe

How to Succeed as a UX consultant in Product Design

In the media

Top design award from Ford of Europe

THIIS, July 2021

Top design award for Ravensbourne student

Calum Gambrill, BA (Hons) Product Design student, came up with an idea for an accessible and inclusive taxi service and won a prestigious award. 

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Facilities

Prototyping suite

Prototyping suite

Our rapid prototyping suite helps students to turn ideas into realistic proofs of concept with the use of state-of-the-art 2d and 3d printing and fabrication.

Students can run off a working 3d prototype in less than a day, laser cut a range of 2d and 3d printed materials or use the latest dye-sublimation fabric printers to add incredible patterns to fabric.

We also have one of the world’s first and best multi-material Polyjet printers to produce detailed and precise prototypes that have a final-product look and feel.

Training is provided on specialist equipment and our helpful and friendly staff are on hand to support you in turning your ideas into working prototypes.

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