Commercial and Industrial Designers

Key skills

A typical day

• •Prepare sketches of ideas, detailed drawings, illustrations, artwork, or blueprints, using drafting instruments, paints and brushes, or computer-aided design equipment.
• •Modify and refine designs, using working models, to conform with customer specifications, production limitations, or changes in design trends.
• •Evaluate feasibility of design ideas, based on factors such as appearance, safety, function, serviceability, budget, production costs/methods, and market characteristics.
• •Confer with engineering, marketing, production, or sales departments, or with customers, to establish and evaluate design concepts for manufactured products.
• •Present designs and reports to customers or design committees for approval and discuss need for modification.

Fields of study

Any field