BA (Hons) Product Innovation Bachelor's degree at Huddersfield

This module introduces and develops your awareness and understanding of 2D and 3D visual language relating to research, analysis, evaluation and synthesis through exploration of the creative process of design. The module comprises three components: visual enquiry, design interpretation and communicative processes. Your knowledge and understanding of these principles will be demonstrated through a portfolio containing visual exploration and development, 2D/3D proposals and design experimentation.

Assessment: Portfolio containing visual exploration and development, 2D/3D proposals and design experimentation

The module will provide an opportunity for you to develop an understanding and explorative approach to the consideration and production of design proposals and to further utilise a range of design methods and digital/analogue techniques in the application and practice of design and project work. Design work will be undertaken to enable you to integrate design process, creative experimentation and visual communication techniques while encouraging the acquisition and development of organisational,

Assessment: Design projects and assignments

This module will introduce you to a range of relevant theories for and about design. It will introduce you to discourses and debates relating to the history, influences, production and critical reception of design. It will contextualise these aspects in terms of your discipline providing an overarching understanding of design in general as well as more focused elements pertinent to your design field.

This module will contain a number of projects from which to choose and will include a focus towards audience and client expectations and needs, competitiveness, social and ethical considerations and the identification of design criteria. Design work will continue to develop design exploration studies, in both 2D and 3D, encouragement will be made towards understanding the importance of digital presentation and modelling techniques and related issues in the design process. You will identify an ap

Assessment: Presentations made digitally, verbally and visually

The module develops your practical and design methodology skills in preparation for your final year study. It uses industry level projects to improve creativity and problem solving capabilities. It also establishes a professional approach to your design work and presentations. The module will develop your conceptual, cultural, technical, specification, design and aesthetic resolution skills.

This module is divided into 2 parts, a theoretical component and a practical component. The practical component will present approaches that encourage personal development and reflection while developing an appreciation and understanding of strategies and methodologies related to employability and work placement. There will be guidance in the preparation of an individual Curriculum Vitae, letters of application and an understanding of the role and nature of self-promotion. There will be an empha

The placement year is your chance to gain hands-on experience and build on the skills you've developed in your first two years of study. You'll spend up to 48 weeks (minimum 36 weeks) in a graduate-level role, sharpening your professional skills, exploring career options, and boosting your future job prospects. During your placement, you'll reflect on your performance, develop real-world skills, and learn to approach your role with a critical eye. Your placement will be monitored, and you'll be

Assessment: Assessment on your achievements

The Portfolio Sandwich Year module provides a flexible and tailored approach to professional development. It allows you to create a customised portfolio of graduate-level opportunities if your career aspirations don't align with a traditional sandwich year placement. This module will help you develop a diverse and adaptable skillset, build professional networks, and enhance your career readiness through a mix of structured and self-directed activities.

This module enables you to complement your major project by undertaking in‑depth market, audience, and technical research to inform and develop your design proposals. You will extend and apply relevant technical and material knowledge through critical evaluation and informed decision‑making within your design practice, considering market, economic, and contextual factors that shape the realisation of your design proposal(s).

You will build upon and test research developed in your Research Proposal. You will channel your creative and intellectual skills, either as an individual, or as part of a collaboration or interdisciplinary team, to create innovative, original or highly professional proposition(s) appropriate to your discipline through, for example, sketchbooks, worksheets and creative outputs. You will realise the potential of your major project in a form appropriate to your intentions. Your artefacts will act

Assessment: Sketchbooks, worksheets and creative outputs

This module will establish and inform your major project. Within it you will identify a theme/subject/issue relevant to your practice. The module will re‑emphasise the importance of in‑depth research, within which you will demonstrate originality, pro‑activity and innovation. The context and parameters of this module will be defined by you through negotiation and ongoing dialogue with your tutors.