課程資訊
The BA(Hons) Product Design Programme encourages students to take an ‘interdisciplinary’ approach to product design. That means you will study with other design and technology students on common projects. The Programme also offers internships and live industry projects which allows a student to experience real work for a company while studying. You will design for the latest design challenges faced by real employers. Industry partners award sponsored prizes to students who demonstrate excellent design work. Our Programme builds graduates who are lifelong learners and valued design professionals with a consistently high graduate employment rate. We offer DSE graduates SSSDP study places and higher diploma graduates a rich and industry connected top-up degree.
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Out-of-Class Learning
Discover Tokyo: A Journey of Innovation and Inspiration
Embarked on an unforgettable educational adventure in Tokyo, where creativity met culture! This meticulously planned trip from Hong Kong ensured a seamless start, preparing students for a world of discovery. They dove into the mesmerizing digital art at teamLab Planets, sparking new creative visions and expanding artistic horizons.
Explored the heart of toy design at Bandai NAMCO Cross Store, where students gained insider knowledge on product creation, igniting professional dreams. They wandered through the halls of The National Museum of Western Art, The National Art Center Tokyo, and Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, where groundbreaking Japanese contemporary art awaited to inspire and challenge perceptions.
Engaged in dynamic seminars and workshops at the School of Design, Tokyo University of Technology, fostering academic exchanges and unveiling cutting-edge trends in global design practices. This collaborative environment enriched students’ academic journeys, offering a glimpse into the future of design.
Concluded with a reflective debriefing session, celebrating achievements and solidifying newfound knowledge and skills. This trip not only broadened horizons but also deepened appreciation for Tokyo’s vibrant cultural and professional landscapes. They joined us in Tokyo, where every moment was a step towards innovation and inspiration!
London Art and Design Trip 2018
A group of nine product design students from Year 3 and 4 took part in a 12-day study trip to London, UK from the end of June to early July. They took part in a 4-day workshop organized with our UK partner De Montfort University. While at De Montfort University, our students were introduced to the practice of digital design in a European context and offered opportunities to visit New Designers Show 2018.
Student Achievements
CATCHING STARS: A Gold-Award-Winning Baby Monitor for Comfort and Engagement
Student: LAM Jemima Ching Sum
CATCHING STARS, our innovative baby monitor, has been honored with the 2025 HKSDA Gold Award in the Conceptual Group and the Student Award! This ground-breaking product redefines baby monitoring by focusing on comfort, engagement, and multifunctionality, making it a game-changer for young parents. CATCHING STARS is the first-ever baby selfie monitor designed to minimize the discomfort of being surveilled while creating a relaxed and engaging environment for your little one. Its thoughtful design includes:
- A sensory ball featuring various textures and shapes to encourage tactile exploration.
- A removable magnetic toy that doubles as a fun, interactive element for babies.
- A silicone nightlight with six captivating colors, changing with every press to keep your baby entertained.
- A built-in camera shutter, allowing parents to effortlessly capture precious moments with their little ones.
This versatile monitor is ideal for use in cribs or baby gyms, combining practicality with play. Made from BPA-free silicone, it’s safe for infants and ensures peace of mind for parents.
This award-winning design truly reflects the excellence of THEi’s Product Design Programme.
KaiTak Sports Stadium Souvenir Design
Alumni: FAN Hui Ching, Faye
In 2025, Alumni FAN Hui Ching, Faye won the Global Design Award for her souvenir design of the newly built Kai Tak Sports Stadium. The product is made of laser-cut acrylic sheets with a low production cost in mind and easy for souvenir recipients to assemble in minutes. The product is mass produced by Kai Tak Sports Stadium and is distributed to VIP stadium visitors and corporate partners.
Design Awards and Outstanding Achievement
Alumni: Hattie CHAN
Apart from fabulous harvest from Hong Kong Smart Design Award, THEi Product Design students achieved several outstand design award in AY1819, including Gold and Bronze award of 2018 Solidworks Design Contest and the Innovation Award of the 2nd Greater China Smart Home Appliances Design Competition. Last but not least, we harvested the Star Prize Award from RADO Hong Kong by Ms. Hattie CHAN, our final year student.
Outstanding Showcases
Empowering Self-Discovery Through Design
This educational intimacy tool invites Hong Kong teens to explore their bodies and sexuality with confidence and curiosity. Designed to overcome cultural taboos, our innovative product transforms sexual education into an interactive, tactile experience—using carefully engineered pleasure devices as learning instruments. By reimagining traditional pleasure products like vibrators and masturbation sleeves as educational tools, this project challenges stigma while delivering essential knowledge. The design promotes sexual wellbeing as a natural part of self-care, helping teens develop healthy attitudes through first-hand experience rather than shame or misinformation.
Wear your emotions, ‘Infinity’
Infinite emotions—deeply personal, perfectly yours. At the intersection of your inner world and the outside, this jewelry becomes your voice. Through color, design, and precious gemstones, each piece captures the complexity of what you feel. When words aren’t enough, let these creations speak for you—powerfully, intimately. Every design is as unique as you are, transforming emotions into wearable art. More than adornment, it’s a daily companion—a gentle reminder to honor your well-being, especially when life distracts you from what matters. Wear your emotions. Celebrate your truth.
Metank
Make your virtual pets come true
Metank is a container for your virtual pet. The concept is to bring the metaverse into real life. The “Me” stands for metaverse and provides an immersive experience. You can buy a variety of marine creatures and decorate your fish tank however you choose. To create an atmosphere conducive to your sea animals, remember to buy the proper equipment to maintain a healthy marine ecology. Cleaning the fish tank, changing the water filter, and caring for the pets you’ve purchased can all be done by entering the metaverse to ensure a truly immersive experience.
NANOMY
Nano-Nutrient Water Dispenser
In the near future, nanotechnology is set to revolutionize scientific research and transform health and wellness. By manipulating materials at the nanoscale—typically between 1 to 100 nanometers—scientists are uncovering unique properties that enable groundbreaking applications across various fields. This technology is particularly crucial for enhancing water quality and promoting individual health by infusing water with nanoscale nutrients. As nanotechnology gains traction, individuals will be empowered to customize their hydration by adding essential nanoscale vitamins, minerals, and beneficial additives, turning simple hydration into a proactive health strategy. However, the widespread use of engineered nanoparticles presents significant challenges, including risks posed by their introduction into water treatment systems, environmental accumulation, and unforeseen interactions with biological systems. The Personalized Hydration Dispenser, NANOMY, addresses these challenges by enabling users to tailor their hydration experience with nanoscale nutrients while incorporating controls to prevent overconsumption and minimize environmental impact. With nano water supplied exclusively by the government, buildings equipped with NANOMY dispensers will require systems to manage usage for each household, ensuring quality and safety. The direct piping system facilitates efficient hydration management, making NANOMY a sustainable and forward-thinking solution for personalized hydration in the future.
TOM-MR
In a future where most human food is 3D-printed to prioritize sustainability, and soft, easily consumable meals dominate due to a growing preference for minimal chewing, a new challenge emerges: jaw muscle atrophy from a lack of use. Enter TOM-MR, a robot designed 50 years into the future to stimulate jaw muscles and prevent the health issues associated with reduced chewing activity. TOM-MR provides a personalized regimen of jaw exercises, helping users maintain muscle strength, oral health, and facial structure in a world accustomed to ultra-soft diets. This innovative concept is part of the DPD5334 Emerging Technology and Trends module, where students are encouraged to project into the distant future and anticipate potential challenges that could arise from evolving societal habits and technological trends. By imagining conceptual extensions of today’s realities, students explore how future technologies might address emerging user needs while emphasizing the critical role of product designers in shaping a sustainable and healthy future. TOM-MR exemplifies this forward-thinking approach, offering a solution to a problem that may seem distant but is rooted in current trends and behaviors.
Electric Field Utility Truck
This electric pickup truck is designed in response to the unmet needs of rural and semi-rural users in Thailand. Particularly those who face harsh environmental conditions, narrow unpaved roads and physically demanding work routines. Many rural residents, especially farmers and small-scale entrepreneurs, rely heavily on their vehicles not just as a mode of transportation, but as essential tools for their daily livelihood. This vehicle is built not only with rugged performance and cutting-edge technology in mind but also with deep empathy for its real users, supporting elderly individuals, women, and farmers who need dependable and user-friendly solutions. Every component from the smart drivetrain to modular LED lighting and ergonomic loading systems has been thoughtfully engineered with the goal of empowering rural communities through sustainable, modern mobility. This is not simply a new truck; it is an integrated platform that bridges innovation with real-life practicality, bringing safety to the hands of those who use it every day.
Granite Terran EV
This pet-friendly vehicle is thoughtfully designed for adventurers who love exploring the outdoors with their furry companions. A dedicated pet ramp on the passenger side offers effortless access for pets, ensuring convenience and comfort. Instead of a traditional passenger seat, the vehicle features a flat bed space, allowing owners and pets to stay close while maintaining clear visibility and comfort during travel. For added safety, a built-in pet seatbelt buckle is seamlessly integrated into the center console, keeping pets secure on the go.
Camping with this vehicle is a breeze, thanks to a versatile flip-up shelf that serves dual purposes. During travel, it acts as a divider to keep gear organized and secure, and when folded down, it creates a spacious flat sleeping surface for owners and their pets. The front storage compartment includes four dedicated slots for portable batteries, providing reliable power for devices and enhancing the off-grid camping experience. This innovative design ensures that both owners and pets can enjoy seamless, safe, and comfortable adventures together.
REGAIN
REGAIN is a combinable and collapsible smart walking cane, with different modes and a variety of smart features, it comprehensively assists stroke survivors at every stage of their recovery. REGAIN has two different modes: the walker mode and the cane mode. During the initial phase of the recovery process, stroke survivors usually have lower mobility. At this stage, they can use the entire product as a smart walker, providing better walking support. As they recover and improve their mobility, they might not need a full walker frame. They can separate the cane from the walker and use it alone, reducing bulkiness and enhancing portability.
The Sector Vase
Created through an innovative collaboration with industry partners, the Sector vase combines eco-conscious manufacturing with refined functionality. Utilizing revolutionary eco-sand 3D printing technology, this collection delivers sustainable sophistication without compromising on design. Its clean lines and striking silhouette make it a versatile centre piece—equally at home on a dining table, shelf, or as an accent piece. For those tricky corners, the Single Vase transforms overlooked spaces into beautiful displays. The Double Vase is perfect for edges or wall-hanging, creating stunning vertical gardens, while the Tri Vase elegantly covers protruding corners with lush plants or bonsai. Need a tabletop statement? The Quad Vase combines form and function, ideal as a centre piece on a tea table. Timelessly sophisticated yet thoughtfully designed, the Sector vase elevates your space with beauty, adaptability, and smart solutions for modern living.
Indoor Hydroponic Wall Planter
More people are taking planting as their hobby. This design aims to link the relationship between humans and nature. In a highly urban context such as cities and high rises, the design student wants to enhance users’ experiences in planting houseplants. She developed a design solution that minimizes hassles of planting. The resultant design addresses usability combined with a highly stylish form factor that is easy to use and maintain, bring a newfound joy to urban gardeners.
Sustainable Lighting Design 2021
In this project students are taught sustainable product design using the Cradle-to-Cradle concept which is a biomimetic method to the design of products and systems. It models human industry on nature’s processes where materials are considered as nutrients circulating in healthy, safe metabolisms. Students are tasked to design and fabricate a sustainable lighting design incorporating the concept taught in the module. The project was done in collaboration with the Hong Kong Printing and Publishing Media Industry Workers Union who provided to students some of the sustainable materials used to make the design and access for further extending their knowledge about green technology.
Merus Menstruation Kit
Around the world, there are 200,000 tonnes of menstrual waste produced per year. Problems with current menstruation products include difficult insertion, inconvenient disinfection, and inconvenience when it comes to menstrual tracking. This design aims to give a sense of intimacy & cleanliness to menstruation products, provide a portable & convenient method of disinfection and simplify and aid product insertion for beginners. By promoting green menstrual management, an app not only allows online purchase and reorder of consumable items, but it also helps manage and track menstruation cycles. The UV sterilizer helps to provide a ‘greener’ management of items reducing overall consumable items used.
Cat’s lovely home
Cat lovers spend their time pampering their pets. This cat product design addresses pain points for cat owners such as lack of safe ‘high-up’ places where cats love to sit and observe, unattractive materials used for common cat products, not having products that fit well into a stylish home and relatively difficulty to customize cat products for homes. With this product, owners can configure the different items according to the layout of their homes. Cats will love you for your attention to detail and the fabric parts can be washed easily to maintain cat hygiene.
Bird on a Wire
This beautiful sculptural bird was created using waste printed parchments from the printing industry. The choice of materials allows the warm light of the L.E.D. bulb to shine through. The collaboration with commercial printers taught students that waste materials can be revived when combined with creativity and design skill.
Grab & Stack Boardgame
Educational toys are important in children’s growth and development. Inventions of digital toys are harming the parent-child relationship. Designing a traditional toy that doesn’t rely much on technology can still be popular among children around the world. Parents think a good toy should be challenging and encouraging, open to flexible play patterns, can keep the long-term interest of children, and can involve parents during play for developing a better parent-child relationships. Grab & Stack is a race against your opponents to stack burgers, sandwiches, and hotdogs correctly in the shortest amount of time! You must pick up the ingredients with the suction stick, not your hands!
The Pivot Wheelchair
Wheelchairs are limited when it comes to getting through terrains such as sand, grassland, or rough footpaths. It limits users’ outdoor activity. These limitations can also be found in built environments. For example, excessive slopes, stairs, garden features and alike. Wheelchair users often feel exhausted after travelling short distances outdoors when they encounter the features. To achieve a better user experience, several enhancements have been made in this new design. The seating angle has been adjusted to give better pelvic support for extended usage, easing the pressure on the buttocks. This design now has a fifth wheel that is power assisted. This lightweight design allows powered drivetrain while maintaining light overall weight. It has a rimless design and a convenient horizontal handlebar. Storage and folding are achieved easily.
Project Leviathan
Project Leviathan is a modern sailing yacht concept designed to provide the best sailing experience for sailors, letting them travel around the world without boundaries. It aims to provide easy sailing and the betterment of life living on-board the yacht. The Leviathan is a 20-meter cruiser type sailing yacht with an integrated jet tender. Designed with the mind set of sustainability and self-sufficiency, the yacht is infused with numerous innovative design solutions. It is the combination of modern technologies and stunning aesthetics that aims to revolutionize the luxury superyacht market.
Veggyhouse
This design is the result of a collaboration between product design and information and communication technology students in a semester long project. They were tasked with improving the overall user experience of indoor planting and using technology to monitor, inform, simplify, and support daily planting rituals. Users can benefit from use of electronic features that automate watering and gives status updates to the user’s phone at any time. The smart product gives the correct wavelengths of light to the plant so that the least amount of electricity is used to support its growth. Overall, the simple and attractive shape also has ease of use and cleaning in mind.
