Umeå Institute of Design

{{Infobox university

| name = {{nowrap|Umeå Institute of Design}}

| image =UID-building-stallverket-April2014.jpg

| image_size =240px

| native_name = UID
Designhögskolan i Umeå

| established = 1989

| type = Public

| head_label = Rector

| head =

| location = Umeå, Sweden

| enrollment = 150

| doctoral = 6

| faculty = 40

| campus = Urban

| parent = Umeå University

| affiliations = EUA

| website = [http://www.uid.umu.se Umeå Institute of Design]

}}

The Umeå Institute of Design, UID, is an institute within Umeå University. UID opened in 1989 and is designed and equipped solely for the teaching of industrial design, transportation design, and interaction design. The Umeå Institute of Design is situated between the main Campus and Umeå city centre, as a part of the Umeå Arts Campus.

UID is the only Scandinavian school to have been listed on BusinessWeek's top 60 list of design schools in the world in all of the three listings (2006, 2007 and 2009),[http://bwnt.businessweek.com/dschools/2006/ BusinessWeek's list of the 60 design school considered best in the world, 2006] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080217004535/http://bwnt.businessweek.com/dschools/2006/ |date=2008-02-17 }}[http://bwnt.businessweek.com/interactive_reports/talenthunt/index.asp?chan=innovation_special+report+--+d-schools_special+report+--+d-schools BusinessWeek's list of the 60 design school considered best in the world, 2007] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080106165545/http://bwnt.businessweek.com/interactive_reports/talenthunt/index.asp?chan=innovation_special+report+--+d-schools_special+report+--+d-schools |date=2008-01-06 }}[https://web.archive.org/web/20091004191459/http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/09/0930_worlds_best_design_schools/27.htm BusinessWeek's list of the 30 design school considered best in the world, 2009] and has also been named as one of the world's 18 excellent designs schools in 2010.{{cite web|url=http://psd.tutsplus.com/articles/web/18-excellent-design-schools-from-around-the-world/ |title=18 Excellent Design Schools From Around the World | Psdtuts |publisher=Psd.tutsplus.com |date=2010-09-14 |access-date=2010-09-18}}

2011 UID was ranked as the second-best design education in the region "Europa & the Americas" by Red Dot Institute[http://www.dexigner.com/news/25073 Red Dot Design Ranking for Design Concepts] and 2012 UID advanced to first place.[http://www.red-dot.sg/concept/ben12/inst_ae_rank.htm reddot design ranking 2011] In 2013, 2014, and from 2016 to 2022 it got ranked first as well.{{Cite web|url=https://www.red-dot.org/design-concept/red-dot-design-ranking/|title = Red Dot Design Ranking | Red Dot Award: Design Concept}}{{Cite web|date=27 October 2021|title=Umeå Institute of Design atop Red Dot Ranking six years running|url=https://www.mynewsdesk.com/umea_university/pressreleases/umeaa-institute-of-design-atop-red-dot-ranking-six-years-running-3139847|access-date=27 October 2021|website=Umeå University Pressroom}}

The internationally acclaimed SVT - Sveriges Television documentary All The World in a Design School by documentary filmmaker Mattias Löw from 2015 follows a group of international industrial design students at Umeå Institute of Design during a study year.