About University of Dundee: Product Design

Product Design at the University of Dundee make products that work. Products that work in a social way and products that work through digital technology. We think the world can be made so much better by integrating digital technology into our lives in a natural, playful and sustainable way. Find out more

What We Do?

We're a research based programme educating undergraduate, masters and PhD students - and when I say educate... rather, we work with our students to explore their potential as designers in the digital world.

Student Examples

Here's some great examples of concepts in progress:

• TweetingSeat - a seat that tweets...
• Slow Photography - treat your cellphone/smartphone like camera film....
  
• Timeline Tools - automatically capture every hack you do...
• Don-8r Robot - use robots for fundraising...

Research Projects

We research the impact of designing digital products for the digital economy. Here's a couple of projects to give you and idea of what we're doing right now.

• Bespoke Project - exploring digital inclusion
• TOTeM Project - connecting stories to objects to people

Who Are We?

• Jon Rogers - Course director
• Pete Thomas - Part time lecturer and part-time director of the design agency Uniform

2011 Students

An insight into the students working on the Mozilla topics

• Arthi Manohar - PhD student
• Larissa Pschetz - PhD student sponsored by Microsoft Research and the EPSRC
• Steve Birnie - PhD student design for and sponsored by NCR
• Simone O'Callaghan - PhD student