Integrated Design
Design is no longer a standalone practice but an integrative process. Design dissolves silos, connects disciplines and bridges gaps between people, organisations and sectors. Integrated Design is crucial for addressing the increasingly complex challenges we face in industries, public sector, and communities.
In today’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world, where technology, society, and the environment are rapidly evolving, design must stay flexible and adaptive. By combining diverse disciplines, Integrated Design delivers innovative, sustainable, and effective solutions to this ever-changing landscape.
When you view design as a verb, it becomes integral to every stage of a project—whether it’s a service, product (tangible or virtual), communication strategy, or a complex systemic challenge. Design is essential in discovery, definition, evaluation, creation, and implementation.
Our Masters of Design programme provides you a strategic, interdisciplinary platform to explore design’s changing role across businesses, organisations, and society. It equips you with essential skills to address complex challenges and foster innovation through a blend of theory and practical experience.
By integrating areas like Service, Experience, Interaction, and Transformative Design, our programme prepares design professionals to lead meaningful change across industries, social sectors, and governments.
Located in Singapore—a vibrant, multicultural metropolis—you can gain access to globally recognised organisations in hospitality, retail, and technology.
Hear from Professor Stone as he provides an overview and describes the goals and advantages of our MDes programme.
Preparing designers for
strategic leadership roles
A unique and applied
course structure
We believe that educating designers and creative leaders requires a multifaceted approach. Our programme combines hands-on design studios with seminar-based learning, allowing you to collaborate with and be inspired by peers from diverse disciplines, industry experts and world-class faculty.
You'll gain a solid theoretical foundation in design strategy, leadership, research methods, and collaboration approaches, while exploring emerging topics in design.
Our studio-based activities provide an immersive, project-driven learning experience that simulates a professional environment. Guided by faculty and industry partners, you will work in small teams to tackle real-world challenges.
Dr Lee talks about the need for creative leaders and design facilitators and how our MDes programme addresses these needs.
Our context is our advantage
A distinct advantage of our MDes in Integrated Design is that we are situated within the National University of Singapore, ranked among the top 10 universities globally. This provides access to engagements, collaborations, and research across a broad spectrum of disciplines.
Singapore, a hyper-modern metropolis, is home to many multinational organisations and corporations. This environment enables us to provide you with access to a wide range of globally recognised organisations in the hospitality, service, retail, and high-tech industries. All in a rich, safe, multicultural, tropical environment.
World-Class Industry Connections
Boundless Career Opportunities
