Department of Design
The Department of Design offers a transformative educational experience that turns your creative talents and curiosity for the world into a fulfilling profession. You’ll explore new ways to engage with the most exciting and urgent issues of our time and experience firsthand the power of design to affect positive change. Our program focuses on attaining the highest degree of design craftsmanship in order to apply that craft to the work that means the most to you.
Dive Deeper Into Design
Project-Driven Courses
Our project-based coursework gives you room to experiment and expand your design skills while building a portfolio of work.
Design Student Work
Take a look at the graphic design, product prototypes, and mobile app experiences created by our students.
Campus to Career
Design graduates are visual designers, art directors, interaction designers, product designers, user experience strategists, and more. Our dedicated Industry Relations team is ready to help jumpstart your professional network.
Design 101
Read about our computer requirements, UT student organizations, and peruse our most frequently asked questions about Design, all right here.
Develop Your Creative Practice
In our dedicated studio spaces and fabrication labs, you’ll gain exposure to a range of design disciplines and hone your craft.
Courses For All Majors
Learn how to apply design thinking principles or build skills in the digital arts to complement any field of study with courses from the Center for Integrated Design or the Bridging Disciplines Program.