Design

Designers are strategists, leaders, analysts and makers who envision and create the future of service, experience, systems and products.

Design for our changing world

Gain the skills you’ll need to create meaningful solutions for today’s challenges. We aim to prepare you for the new and exciting world of design. Designers are increasingly relied on to lead innovation. They find work in multiple industries, including business, science and entertainment. Designers are hired to address business challenges and opportunities in a responsibly disruptive way. They drive innovative solutions and exceptional user experiences.

Studying Design alongside another subject in a conjoint degree allows you to amplify your creative capacity and learn to work beside others with different skill sets, expertise and approaches. You can do a conjoint with ArtsCommerceEngineering (Honours)Global StudiesHealth SciencesMusicProperty or Science.

Terall sits at desk inside a fabrication lab and smiles to camera. He wears a black coat and grey tutrleneck sweater.
Terall Timoti | Graduate: Bachelor of Design

Design is all about innovating and improving. Study Design if you are genuinely curious about how your ideas can impact the world around you.

Terall Timoti Graduate Programme Designer at Auckland Transport

Where can Design take you?

  • Creative technologist
  • Design for web, film, television, gaming and new media
  • Design strategist, systems designer
  • Experience designer (UX), interface designer (UI)
  • Customer experience designer (CX), service designer
  • Interaction designer (XD)
  • Product designer
  • Teaching and research

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Ready to apply?

Start your journey to the University with an Application for Admission to the Bachelor of Design (BDes) or one of eight Design conjoint degree programmes.