Design
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Create the inspiring, artistic and human-focused designs of tomorrow
If you’re dreaming of a vibrant future in design, look no further than UTS. Offering hands-on learning, human-centred approaches and future-ready technological capabilities, it’s no wonder we’re the top university in Sydney for art and design.
With our experienced teaching staff and practical curriculum, you’ll be ready to go further, using your creative and design skills as a force for positive change. Whether you want to design on-trend fashions, user-focused products or impactful visual communications, we’ll help you get there.
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Average salary
## $97,927 per year
Design professionals in Australia earn a high average salary of more than $90,000 a year.
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Job postings
## 74,400 currently employed
Australia is home to more than 70,000 design professionals in fields like graphic design, web design illustration, fashion, product and jewellery design and multimedia.
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Internationally ranked
## Top 100 in the world
UTS is ranked #96 globally and #9 in Australia and in the top 100 in the world for art and design.
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Why study Design?
The UTS Design difference
Hands-on
In design studios, fabrication labs and digital maker spaces, gain the practical skills to translate design concepts into tangible outcomes.
Human centred
We are people designing for people. Become an expert practitioner in empathetic design solutions that have humans at their core.
Socially just
Climate change, wealth inequality, gendered violence — design has a role to play in addressing the pressing problems of today. Work with real people and organisations to deliver design for a fairer world.
Globally connected
From the international study tours to community collaborations, a UTS design degree can take you anywhere.
Technology focused
As a university of technology, we pride ourselves on delivering tech-enabled teaching. Get to grips with the tools that sit at the cutting edge of contemporary design.
Grounded in research
Course content is shaped by the findings from our world-leading research academics and centres, including the Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Fashion and Textiles, the Material Ecology Design Lab, and the UTS Visualisation Institute.
Focused on the future
Harness the potential of innovation to design objects, spaces, systems and services that have the power to transform the way we live.
Get Inspired
How design puts people at the heart of the Heart Foundation
With coronary heart disease still Australia’s number one killer, the heart Foundation wants to know how to enhance the work and services they offer and that’s where UTS Design comes in.
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My name's Bridget Malcolm. I'm a senior designer and researcher here at the UTS Design Innovation Research Centre. My role is to lead design projects with really interesting teams of people and clients with challenging problems.
We work with a really broad range of clients here – in fact over the last 10 years we've completed over 150 projects and they range from reimagining the prison system to designing models of care in the health sector.
The Heart Foundation came to UTS looking to understand how to better support people who are living with a heart condition, and they wanted to do that through a design approach.
We're undertaking this research partnership in collaboration with the UTS Centre for Business and Social Innovation.
The Heart Foundation chose to partner with UTS because we really needed some new thinking to the way in which we were approaching providing support and care to patients or people with heart disease.
Traditionally our approach to patient education and support has been very linear; we really needed the skills of an organisation or a university like UTS to come in and really complement the way in which we approach our strategies to support patients or people in the community.
The Design Innovation Research Centre is a social design agency embedded within the University of Technology Sydney. We work across the forefront of design helping organisations with challenging situations.
What design does is it takes you out of the organisation. It gives you metaphors to look at and it also helps people to think of a different future and if you begin to think of a different future you'll become more open to different ways of addressing problems.
We've worked really closely with the Heart Foundation to understand the problem, and one of the ways that we've done that is we have created a visual map of the healthcare system. These visual maps can be a really powerful way to diagnose where to intervene in a problem.
The process has been fantastic. It has been a real journey of discovery. So we're bringing our knowledge of the health problem, but business and design are bringing a whole different skill set to really help us examine and look at the problem in a way that we would never do traditionally.
In health we hope that at the end of the day our partners find new ways to perceive the problems that they've never gained traction on in the past and that they can use that perspective to implement a new solution that works not just for them but for the communities and stakeholders that they work with and that that change is long lasting.
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