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| Occupation | |
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Occupation type | Profession |
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| Competencies | Technical knowledge, teamwork abilities |
Fields of employment | see Design professions |
A designer is a person who plans the form or structure of something before it is made, by preparing drawings or plans.
In practice, anyone who creates tangible or intangible objects, products, processes, laws, games, graphics, services, or experiences can be referred to as a designer.
Overview
A Designer is someone who conceptualizes & creates new concepts / ideas / products for consumption by the general public. It is different from what an artist does who creates art which is for a select few to understand or appreciate. However both domains require some understanding of aesthetics. The design of clothing, furniture, and other common artifacts were left mostly to tradition or artisans specializing in hand making them.
With the increasing complexity in industrial design of today's society, and due to the needs of mass production where more time is usually associated with more cost, the production methods became more complex and with them, the way designs and their production are created. The classical areas are now subdivided into smaller and more specialized domains of design (landscape design, urban design, interior design, industrial design, furniture design, fashion design, and much more) according to the product designed or perhaps its means of production. Despite the variety of specializations within the design industry, all of them have similarities in terms of the approach, skills, and methods of working.
Using design methods and design thinking to resolve problems and create new solutions are the most important aspects of being a designer. Part of a designer's job is to get to know the audience they intend on serving.
In education, the methods of teaching or the program and theories followed vary according to schools and field of study. In industry, a design team for large projects is usually composed of a number of different types of designers and specialists. The relationships between team members will vary according to the proposed product, the processes of production or the research followed during the idea development, but normally they give an opportunity to everyone in the team to take a part in the creation process.
Design professions
Different types of designers include:
- Animation
- Architecture
- Communication design
- Costume design
- Engineering design
- Fashion design
- Floral design
- Furniture design
- Game design
- Graphic design
- Industrial design
- Interaction design
- Interior design
- Jewellery design
- Landscape design
- Instructional design
- Logo design
- Lighting design
- Packaging design
- Product design
- Scenic design
- Service design
- Software design
- Sound design
- Strategic design
- Systems design
- Textile design
- Urban design
- User experience design
- User interface design
- Web design
See also
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