Design BA

• Develop a future-focused, adaptable, and agile skill set through a broad design curriculum that enables you to consider how design can address complex challenges
• Take a course that helps you become a socially and environmentally responsible designer
• Benefit from a research-driven approach to teaching, learning from expert designers and practitioners who push the boundaries of design
• Gain valuable industry experience through working on live briefs with real-world clients
• Take advantage of our close links with globally renowned design research lab, ImaginationLancaster

Visualise. Experiment. Create.

At Lancaster, we view design as a way of understanding the world, as a creative process that can address any problem, and contribute to creating a better society. You will work on projects that help you put this view into practice.

Our carefully curated curriculum nurtures creative experimentation, intellectual inquiry, adaptability, critical thinking and ethical awareness as well as emphasising the importance of developing design solutions that are rooted in robust design research.

You will learn how to conduct design research using a broad range of design methods, such as sketchbooks, storyboarding, design workshops, prototyping, journey mapping, empathy mapping, IDEO cards, and many more, allowing you to translate that research into exciting, relevant design solutions visualised to industry standard. This approach expands your horizons whilst fostering adaptability as it enables you to work on a range of projects spanning varied topics such as, environmental and social sustainability, healthier lifestyles, urban wellbeing, and digital futures.

Our research-driven approach to design allows you to gain skills not only in creating innovative design solutions but also in design processes, methods, and tools, as well as identifying problems and opportunities that would benefit from design – a skill valued by many different employers.