Design Degrees Online

This course aims to develop your ability to work as a designer of furniture and consumer products. It encourages you to consider the needs of both consumers and society at large and to respond with highly creative solutions. Your concepts can then be developed in detail and realised as models and prototypes. The focus of the course is on tutored design projects with many driven by realistic briefs from external organisations. Most tutors are design practitioners, many having international reputations in terms of their artefacts and forward thinking. The department also provides excellent facilities for developing new products. These include professional standard workshops for polymers, metals and timber, together with digital manufacturing methods, such as laser cutting, 3D printing and rapid manufacturing techniques.

The School of Design and Business form design professionals who understand the language of business so as to build a range of products and services that have value in competitive markets.

Our innovative curriculum confronts the student of the USS to experience a teacher who allows them to acquire and practice those distinctions which arise from a deep understanding of market needs. We want to be designers who know how to listen to its customers starting point to analyze, conceptualize and develop innovations that have continued in the field of design of products and services for consumers in global markets.

We look for students with passion, who want to understand the logic design and organized body of knowledge from a perspective that promotes the creative endeavor.

Industrial Design is involved in the production of all the multi-dimensional things that people make. In other words, industrial design determines the shape and functionality of electronic appliances, electric equipment, tools, vehicles, lights, furniture, environmental products, school supplies and products copying from animation characters and other 3-dimensional objects. Students will learn how to make these products small, beautiful and suitable for commercial use. Industrial Design requires a designer’s instinct, an understanding of and extensive knowledge of technology and a healthy appreciation of business as it is about designing the merchandise that will be sold to consumers. Although most of the design process is computer-assisted, it is very important to make a real 3-D model of their design and put it through tests to determine the feasibility of their design, because the industrial design deals with 3-D space. Industrial Design addresses basically all the aspects of people’s lives. To help adjust to the 3D space of industrial design, the curriculum focuses extra attention on computer-assisted design.

In today’s economy, consumer goods and services are increasingly differentiated on the basis of the quality of experience they render. Designers must look beyond the form and function to consider the total experience of consumers as social beings interacting with spaces, objects and time.

The curriculum is structured around this experience design thinking to imagine and craft experiences. The consumption of Brand and Product Experiences is the new business today.
A Head Start

The Diploma in Experience and Product Design aims to produce specialised Industrial and Product Designers equipped with Experience Design & User Research Methods.

The course focuses on training our students to not only design the Product but the Experience of the Product and to develop its Branding Strategy.

Our students will be trained in Product Experience Design, Technical Detailing, Production Process and Branding.

Another unique feature of the programme is the creative use of IT-enabled new and emerging technologies (such as Internet, Mobile Communication, Sensor, Display etc.) to support existing or create entirely new products and services.