Product Design and Innovation

About this course

Product design and innovation is concerned with how new products come into existence, from the initial identification of a human need or market opportunity through concept development, prototyping, testing and refinement to a final design ready for manufacture. It is a discipline that bridges artistic and engineering thinking, asking you to be visually creative and technically rigorous at the same time. Good product design is not simply about making things look appealing; it is about understanding how people use objects, how materials and manufacturing processes constrain and enable design choices, and how to create things that are genuinely useful, sustainable and commercially viable. This three-year full-time degree at the University of Portsmouth includes a sandwich year with a work placement and a year abroad, giving you substantial professional and international experience built in

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 50% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

• 60 / 100Business, Research and Administrative Professionals · 5% of graduatescards →
• 40 / 100Science, engineering and technology associate professionals · 10% of graduatescards →
• 40 / 100Sales occupations · 10% of graduatescards →
• 35 / 100Design occupations · 10% of graduatescards →
• 30 / 100Managers, directors and senior officials · 15% of graduatescards →

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