Sept 2025 Entry
2 years
61 (plus 3 Training credits)
Preference will be given to students with good language skills.
What's New
Aims & Objectives
The programme prepares future product designers to shape the sustainable material culture of our society as well as initiate positive social and economic value change. Interweaving hands-on and theoretical training in the human-centred design curriculum framework, this programme aims to enable lifelong learners to devise products and users experience of the product-service system. Students will master the users-oriented research and integrate cross-disciplinary knowledge to carry out the user-scenarios study, cultural appreciation, sustainability, business and technology opportunities study, ergonomic and engineering criteria, production and promotion know-how, and meet the emerging needs of both the market and society of Hong Kong and the rapidly evolving areas such as interactive product, internet of things, the product with artificial intelligence and robotic design.
Characteristics
Is Product Design for you?
You have a passion for questioning, redefining, envisioning, and proving future products for a preferable scenario.
You enjoy do-it-yourself, handcrafts, and or electronics and computational prototyping.
You enjoy manipulating graphical and spatial structure, proportion, colour, and composition to create a unique product experience.
You have sensitivity and a strong interest in analysing visual and three-dimensional forms.
You are a creative and independent thinker who can work with others in a team.
You are willing to develop a wide range of knowledge and skills such as different research and design tools, materials & processing approaches, prototyping skills, computer-aided design, and design business.
You are open-minded, flexible and adaptable.
Graduates of the BA (Hons) in Design (Product Design) can pursue various choices of careers upon graduation. They will be Product/Industrial/Interaction Designers or User Experience (UX) Designers in interactive or intelligence products, wearable technology and fashion accessories, interactive entertainment products, robotic products, emerging product-service system design fields etc. They can also develop their career paths in the field of coordinating, managing or curating creative and social innovation projects in governmental or non-governmental organizations. Graduates are prepared to apply for seed funding and establish starts-up as designpreneur or employed by product design consultancies, user/product research organizations, or educators to promote creativity in Hong Kong and overseas.
Year 3 Pre-professional Collaborations
Students promoted from Year 2 (Product Experience cluster) will carry out the study in two separate tracks (Product Design or Interaction Design) upon their preference and performance. Non-JUPAS students will enter the selected track directly. Students from both disciplines will be able to develop projects through multidisciplinary collaboration.
Year 4 Integrative Design
Students will engage with real clients through the integration of design, business and technology to devise holistic design solution. The training will enable students to polish their professional practices and holistic user-centred design thinking skills for the development of the Capstone project which involves comprehensive and in-depth study and exploration.
Senior Year students are required to complete a total of 61 academic credits plus 3 training credits from industrial centre in order to graduate.
Additional 3 to 9 credits of English and/or Chinese language subject(s) for students not meeting the equivalent standard of the Undergraduate Degree LCR.
More information can be found here.
61 (plus 3 Training credits)
Scheme Leader
Gerhard Bruyns
BSc (Arch) MSc Urbanism TUD, PhD TUD
Programme Leader
Brian Lee
PhD, MA, BA(Hons), FIDSHK
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Applicants with an Associate Degree or a Higher Diploma in Design/Design Studies from a recognised institutions.
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Applicants will be invited to submit design portfolios. Those who satisfactorily perform in portfolio submission will be invited for interviews with portfolio presentation.
For further programme information, please contact:
The General Office
Tel: 2766 5488; email: nicola.yau@polyu.edu.hk
Tel: 2766 4353; email: jennifer.lo@polyu.edu.hk
Required
Copies of public examination result slip(s) demonstrating applicants' English language proficiency, e.g. HKDSE, HKALE, HKCEE, IELTS, TOFEL, etc. (for reference only)
To understand the potential of applicants for the programme, and to ascertain whether their expectations match what the programme/career path can provide and to evaluate their language, communication and interpersonal skills.
About 15-20 minutes
Applicants are required to submit portfolios by early round and main round application deadline. Shortlisted applicants will be invited for individual interviews from November to April.
