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Course overview
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Starts: 2022
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Duration: FT 1 year
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Mode: Full time
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Fees: UK: FT £10,400 / INT: FT £17,000
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Location: The Institute
Ideal for: action-oriented designers who wish to create services that meet the changing needs of the global market
Service-led innovation.
Our MDes Service Design postgraduate course will enable you to design new services at the point where they intersect with the needs and experiences of end users, consumers and stakeholders. Translate how services can interact cohesively with emerging technology and propel your career in the creative industries.
In a recent survey, our postgraduate courses scored 91% student satisfaction for creativity and design, and 93% satisfaction overall*
*Source: Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey, 2020
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Why study this MDes Service Design master's degree?
- Learn practice-based insights to become a service design expert
- Boost employability in a growing sector
- Design and test powerful service prototypes
- Tap into exceptional industry connections
- Develop and facilitate immersive workshops
- Map user experiences through storyworlds
- Explore how new technology platforms can boost revenue streams
- Boost business-to-business, social and community interaction
- Study in a stunning new building in London's Design District
- Be a legacy-maker for The Institute of Creativity and Technology
Inspire change that truly matters
In our exciting Master of Design (MDes) Service Design course in London, you will design new services at the point where they interface with the needs and experiences of end users, consumers and stakeholders.
Service designers are in increasing demand to translate how services can interact with innovation ecosystems, emerging technology, new business-to-business and organisational communications solutions.
Do you wish to become a leading specialist in big bold ideas in the form of services? Build transformative capabilities and propel your career as a service designer in the creative economy and beyond? This master's in Service Design could be a personal game-changer.
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Key study topics
In this MDes Service Design master's degree course at Ravensbourne University London, you will learn to:
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Explore a range of technology enabled services – from eBooks and crowdfunding to streaming services and 3D printing
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Explore platform design and the potential to design prototypes to build active participation amongst networks, ‘assemblies’, alliances and collaborations in digital and organisational eco-systems
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Work within a laboratory prototyping experience with a strong commercial dimension to test ways that digital technologies can open up spaces for more nuanced revenue streams
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The MDes has helped me start my design career, and was an amazing course to come and learn about design. It has given me so much confidence to go out into the real world and test different approaches and ways of thinking. This eventually helped me join IBM where I contribute to their worldwide design thinking journey.”
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The MDes course was fantastic at helping me experiment and play with ways of designing services and new approaches to address social issues.”
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Alumni stories
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Since completing the MDes in Service Design I have worked as Design Lead in Cabinet Office policy team and now a User Researcher at the Government Digital Service. I'm certain both these would have remained as dreams had I not completed the MDes at Ravensbourne.”
Creativity. It's institutional.
The Institute for Creativity and Technology
When you study MDes Service Design, you will join a support network and diverse community of enterprising creatives in a stunning new building teeming with creativity and endeavour. Opening in 2021, The Institute for Creativity and Technology connects academics, researchers and postgraduate students with industry partners to explore the interplay between creativity and technology for education, industry and society.
Located in the heart of London’s creative hub, the Design District, its impossible not to be inspired by the passionate minds, creative sparks and rich culture that surrounds you.
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