Product Design
We pride ourselves on producing student designers in their own mould. Our exceptional academic and technical staff promote freedom, experimentation and individuality in design, as students explore their own practice.
The department is embedded in industry through practice, consultancy and research and has specialisms ranging from materials to medical devices and virtual reality to robotics.
We deliver world-class research which changes people’s lives. We develop revolutionary medical products to improve people’s health. We create sustainable technologies to support developing nations, helping people make water from air and cook food in ovens powered only by the sun.
Our degree courses are renowned in industry for their quality and relevant to practice, embodied by our professional accreditations and track record in producing successful, industry-ready design graduates who are making an impact on the industry across the world.
Our academic offices and workshops are based in the Maudslay building, right in the heart of the University's City Campus. If you’re interested in visiting, studying, or working with us, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Latest News
Product Design second years are visited by Zara Arshad; designer, curator and journalist, for a design research workshop day
Tue 19 Mar 2019
As part of the second year ‘Design Studies’ lecture series, our product design cohort were recently visited by Zara Arshad, a journalist, designer, researcher, and lecturer.
Product design students have the summer of a lifetime in South Korea
Mon 15 Jul 2019
Product design alumni represent NTU at creative exhibition in China
Wed 03 Jul 2019
Product Design students scoop runner-up prize at the Engineers Without Borders UK challenge
Fri 28 Jun 2019
Graduate Student’s innovative work to be sold by leading premium Boat manufacturer
Fri 07 Jun 2019
Our Research Groups and Centres
Sustainable Consumption
Sustainable Consumption is a multidisciplinary research group that focuses on people’s influence on sustainability as users of products and services, ranging from consumer durables and clothing to buildings.
Design Matter
Design Matter
Design Matter is a product design research group, based at Nottingham Trent University, that undertake product design projects for commercial clients in a wide range of industries including medical, capital equipment, transport, point of sale, homewares, apparel and telecommunications.
Advanced Design and Manufacturing Engineering Centre (ADMEC)
Advanced Design and Manufacturing Engineering Centre (ADMEC)
The Advanced Design and Manufacturing Engineering Centre (ADMEC) conducts research in product innovation and development supported by design, manufacture and multi-disciplinary engineering technologies.
The Creative and Virtual Technologies Lab
The Creative and Virtual Technologies Lab
The Creative and Virtual Technologies Lab is a multidisciplinary research environment where architects, artists, designers, engineers, computer scientists and human scientists collaborate to explore the potential of new visualisation techniques and digital design models and processes. This will enhance the quality of our buildings and cities in a sustainable way meeting user expectations.
100% of our undergraduate product design sandwich students are in work or further study within six months of finishing their studies (latest DLHE survey 2016/17)
92% of undergraduate product design students are satisfied with their student experience (National Student Survey 2019)
Our BA (Hons) Product Design, BA (Hons) Furniture and Product Design, MA Design: Products and Furniture and MSc Design: Products and Technology courses are accredited by the Chartered Society of Designers (CSD).
Our BSc (Hons) Product Design course is accredited by the Institution of Engineering Designers (IED).
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