Dr Kate Herd

"Senior Lecturer, Product Design"

Kate Herd

  • School Faculty of Science and Technology

  • Department Design Engineering & Mathematics

  • Location London

Current Teaching

Programme Leader (2019 to present)

BA (Hons) Product Design

BEng (Hons) Product Design Engineering

Currently involved in teaching design process and practice across all years of the programmes.


Biography

Kate is a Senior Lecturer, and Programme Leader for the BA (Hons) Product Design and BEng (Hons) Product Design Engineering programmes. 

A product designer by background, Kate has industry experience across the new product development sector. In her academic practice she teaches design process and projects, and is involved in research across the product, service and interaction design sector through her work at redLoop.

> I’m passionate about: design research – methods to understand people, contexts, behaviours, customer journeys; mass customisation; new product development; sketching and communication. Intrigued by creative processes and design education.

> Always interested in collaboration and the potential to do interesting stuff...

Publications

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