BA (Hons) Interaction Design

• User-centred research and user experience (UX) design
• User interface (UI), web and app design
• Creative coding and interactive prototyping
• Service design and interactions across systems
• Immersive experiences and spatial interaction
• Speculative design, worldbuilding and fictional interfaces
• Emerging technologies and AI-assisted workflows
• Inclusive design and the ethical, social and environmental implications of technology

If you are studying the BA (Hons) Interaction Design with Integrated Foundation Year version of this course, key topics of your integrated foundation year will include:

• Fundamental 3D Design Principles: ergonomics, materials, scale, size, form, and function
• Essential UX principles: user-centred design, information architecture, hierarchy, visual flow, and accessibility
• Proficiency in software and applications for prototyping and extended reality (XR) experiences (Photoshop, Rhino, Blender, Figma, SketchUp, Unity)
• Applying visual language, form principles, and 3D thinking to communicate meaning
• Techniques for shaping, visualising, and communicating 3D forms while balancing hybrid experiences
• Understanding technical workshop operations and using specialist immersive Design facilities
• Employing creative strategies to generate, test, and evaluate design concepts

If you choose to add an Integrated Foundation Year on this course, you will be first introduced to the fundamental principles of design. Your foundation year gives you the time, space and support to explore your strengths, build confidence and prepare for the demands of project-based, industry-focused learning. Modules are as follows*:

• Module 1: Diagnostic exploration - making informed choices
• Module 2: Technical - Technical knowledge in practice
• Module 3: Specialist - Innovating specialist practice
• Module 4: Integration - Integrated practice for progression to Higher Education

Please note: Students starting this course with the Integrated Foundation Year in September 2026/27 will study the 2027/28 approved modules in Years 1, 2 and 3.

Year 1

Build your foundations in UX research, interface design, creative coding, web design and interactions with products. Structured projects and practical workshops help you connect research with making and testing, while developing confidence with unfamiliar tools and methods.

Modules include:

• Rave Beginnings in Interaction Design
• UX Research
• Fundamentals of Practice
• Interacting with Products & Creative Coding
• Web Design
• Employability & Professionalism

Year 2

Expand your practice into immersive environments, future-facing interfaces and service design. Through experimentation, collaboration, industry briefs and work-based learning, explore how interactions operate across spaces, systems and services while developing greater independence and professional awareness.

Modules include:

• Immersive Worlds
• Preparing for Industry
• Insight Interaction
• Service Design
• Emerging Industry Brief
• Live & Work Based Learning

Year 3

Define your direction through industry collaboration and a self-directed Major Project. Use research, prototyping and the exploration of possible futures to investigate design challenges, refine your portfolio and professional website, and prepare for employment or postgraduate study.

Modules include:

• Industry Collaboration
• Situating Practice
• Hello World
• Rave Futures
• Major Project

A variety of learning and teaching methods are employed in this course. 

These include but are not limited to;

Briefings, lectures, project work, seminars, workshops, collaborative work, online activity, individual tutorials, group presentations, critiques, external visits, technical support and self-directed independent study.

The course is assessed entirely by coursework.

Study hours

BA (Hons) Interaction Design with Integrated Foundation Year

• 1152 hours of face-to-face taught
• 3648 hours independent study learning

BA (Hons) Interaction Design

• 864 hours of face-to-face taught
• 2736 hours independent study learning

Basic drawing / image-making tools, sketchbooks: £100

Note on laptop costs: Students are strongly recommended to have a personal laptop suitable for design software. If a new purchase is needed, budget approximately £600–£1,200 as a one-off cost, ideally timed for the start of Year 1. Shared studio computers are available on campus for students who do not yet have their own device.

Our campus 

You'll study in a building designed to encourage collaboration between the different disciplines and practices within Ravensbourne, and to stimulate the work of innovative professionals and creative collaboration.

It features a variety of workspaces, including social and quiet areas, high-tech creative suites, technology hubs, design studios and more. 

Want to see where you'd be studying up close? When you book a guided building tour, you can see our fantastic facilities for yourself and find out more from one of our helpful student ambassadors.

Our local area

Ravensbourne is ideally connected - North Greenwich station is just a 2-minute walk away from our campus and offers amazing views from the Greenwich Peninsula.

These transport links offer an easy route to some of London's major business hubs, perfect for reaching possible placements or networking events with employers in the worlds of business or technology.  

We accept a wide range of qualifications for entry onto our courses, whilst also considering the context in which they were achieved. For this course, we would usually require a GCSE Grade 4 or above in English in addition to any of the below;

• Three A Levels at grade CCC or above
• BTEC Extended Diploma at grade MMM
• UAL Level 3 Extended Diploma
• T Level (pass or above)
• Access to Higher Education Diploma
• International Baccalaureate at grade 25 or above
• Other/Mixed qualifications equivalent to 96 UCAS Tariff points

At Ravensbourne we take a flexible approach to admissions, as we want you to know exactly what you need to achieve in your exams to guarantee a place on the course. We still think exams are important and look forward to hearing about your successes, but we place just as much importance on the work you will share with us as part of our portfolio process.

Selection criteria:

We will consider a wide range of applicants who show creativity and curiosity in the areas of design, technology, research, and more specifically digital experiences and interfaces. You do not need to have any coding or specific design software knowledge to be considered for the course. Admission onto this course is also subject to successful completion of a portfolio (or showreel). 

We may also consider a combination of portfolio and academic qualifications and take into consideration progress made during studies and/or relevant work experience.

If you wish to study our BA (Hons) UX UI User-Experience and User-Interface Design course, we will need to see examples of previous work that showcases your suitability for the course. 

Your portfolio may include:

• App and website design
• Posters/books/other print based projects
• Experiments with code and programming
• Working with materials and technology
• Games design projects
• Photography, video, animation, media projects
• Fine arts projects
• Relevant academic work in social science subjects

It is also great to see your creative process and how you developed your final outcome. Please include sketchbooks including brainstorms, sketches or drawings of ideas and designs, inspiration, moodboards, experiments and prototypes. You may also want to include extra projects and self-initiated design or technology projects you have done outside of any education program.

We will consider a wide range of applicants who show creativity and curiosity in the areas of design, technology, research, and more specifically digital experiences and interfaces. You do not need to have any coding or specific design software knowledge to be considered for the course.

This page offers great tips for completing your portfolio/showreel.

At Ravensbourne we accept a wide range of qualifications for entry onto our courses, whilst also considering the context in which they were achieved. For this course, we would usually require a GCSE Grade 4 or above in English in addition to any of the below;

• Two A Levels at grade DD or above
• BTEC Extended Diploma at grade PPP
• T Level (pass or above)
• International Baccalaureate at grade 25 or above
• Other/Mixed qualifications equivalent to 48 UCAS Tariff points

At Ravensbourne we take a flexible approach to admissions, as we want you to know exactly what you need to achieve in your exams to guarantee a place on the course. 

Selection criteria:

We will consider a wide range of applicants who show creativity and curiosity in the areas of design, technology, research, and more specifically digital experiences and interfaces. You do not need to have any coding or specific design software knowledge to be considered for the course. 

There are no portfolio requirements for this course.