User-Experience and User-Interface (UX/UI) Design with Integrated Foundation Year

Course Overview

Study for a UI/UX design course with an Integrated Foundation Year in London and create intuitive digital products and ingenious apps for the platforms of the future. With access to gold-standard facilities, you’ll become a master of functionality by creating effective design solutions for the user of tomorrow.

From the products we use in our homes to the technology embedded in everyday life, product design influences how we experience the physical world.

Why study this UX/UI design degree?

• Develop a multidisciplinary design and digital skillset

• Understand user behaviour and design products and services that optimise the user’s experience

• Develop a portfolio based on user-centred research and design experimentation, which will showcase your creative, analytical and technical expertise

• Design products and services that optimise user experience

• Learn from the best minds in the industry and tap into exceptional industry connections.

• A world of opportunity for the digital creative

Ravensbourne University London’s four-year Product Design course, including an Integrated Foundation Year (IFY), nurtures your ability to think creatively, work experimentally and design solutions that respond to human needs. The IFY introduces you to essential design concepts and making processes, allowing you to explore materials, form, function and hybrid physical-digital experiences before specialising.

Throughout the course, you’ll build a strong foundation in research, sketching, model-making, 3D design, prototyping and testing. You’ll learn to generate ideas, refine concepts and bring products to life through hands-on experimentation and industry-focused project work.

Working alongside peers from other creative disciplines, you’ll gain the confidence to tackle real-world problems and design innovative objects, systems and services. By graduation, you’ll have a robust portfolio showcasing your technical capability, design craft and ability to shape thoughtful products for the future.

Key study topics

• User research

• Experience design

• Interaction design

• Visual design

• Information architecture

• Design thinking

• Human-centred design and technology.

Career Pathways

UX/UI designers are in huge demand from industry across all sectors helping to define and create the future products, services and experiences people want and enjoy.

Graduates will find work in a number of roles such as UX designer, UX researcher, UI designer, interaction designer, service designer, visual designer and creative technologist.

This course will introduce you to the fundamental principles of 3D design and user centred information. This foundation year gives you the time, space and support to explore your creative identity, build confidence and prepare for the demands of studio-based, project-led learning.

Modules are as follows:

• Module 1 Diagnostic exploration: making informed choices
• Module 2 Technical: Technical knowledge in practice
• Module 3 Specialist: Innovating specialist practice
• Module 4 Integration: Integrated practice for progression to Higher Education

To work as a teacher at a state school in England or Wales, you will need to achieve qualified teacher status (QTS). This is offered on this course for the following level:

• Course does not award QTS