Design, Media & Creative
Product Designer
Designs products end to end, from user need to final form or interface.
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What this career is
Product design owns the full experience of a product — physical or digital — balancing user needs, feasibility and business goals.
- Typical education pathway
- B.Des in product or industrial design, or a design-focused portfolio route
What professionals typically do
- Research user needs and context of use
- Explore concepts through sketches and prototypes
- Refine the final design with engineering input
- Test and iterate based on feedback
Typical education pathways
- B.Des in product, industrial or interaction design
- M.Des for specialisation
Important skills
- User research
- Prototyping
- Systems thinking
- Visual craft
Suitable student interests
- Design
- Problem solving
- Making things
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