The Red Dot Design Award is an international product design and communication design prize awarded by the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Essen, Germany. There are prize categories for product design, design agencies, and design concepts. Since 1955, designers and producers can apply for the prizes with the winners being presented in an annual ceremony. Winning products are presented in the Red Dot Design Museum on the premises of the historical Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen. In 2013, the Red Dot Design Museum Taipei was opened. The Red Dot Design Award had more than 15,500 submissions from 70 countries in 2014.

Red Dot may refer to:

• A descriptive name for Bindi, a forehead decoration applied in the center of the forehead close to the eyebrows
• Little red dot, or red dot, a reference to the nation of Singapore
• On the Red Dot, a Channel NewsAsia current affairs programme about Singapore
• Red Dot, design prize awarded by the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Essen, Germany
• Red dot sight, type of reflector gun sight
• RedDot Solutions, the Web Solutions Group of Open Text business unit of Open Text Corporation
• "The Red Dot", Seinfeld TV episode
• The untitled eighth track on Pearl Jam's 1998 album Yield