Product Design with Integrated Foundation Year

Course Overview

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

Ready to bring your product visions to life? This Product Design degree with an Integrated Foundation Year in London enables you to explore ergonomics, aesthetics and sustainability to produce an industry-ready portfolio.

Why study this product design degree?

• Learn to communicate your design work by building physical and digital prototypes, sketches, design documents, renders and pitch presentations

• Join a cohort of multi-award-winning students

• Strong industry links, live client projects and internships

• Great staff to student ratio with unrivalled access to tutors

• Gain industry ready skills with our cutting-edge, open-access prototyping studios

• Develop original ideas and deliver detailed designs ready for production

• Learn to recognise opportunities for designing innovative products for the future.

Ravensbourne University London’s four-year Product Design course with 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.

Career Pathways

Graduates often proceed to a career in product design, packaging, service retail interior design, 3D promotional design and user experience design. For example, our graduates often help to develop new electronic devices, food packaging and better customer experience in industries such as finance, transport and entertainment.

We encourage you to take up work-based learning opportunities in industry to help shape your future career path.