Designer
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Occupation type | Profession |
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| Competencies | Technical knowledge, teamwork abilities, artistic skills (varies) |
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.
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Classically, the main area of design was only architecture, which was understood as the major arts. 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 is created. The classical areas are now subdivided into smaller and more specialized domains of design (landscape design, urban design, exterior design, interior design, industrial design, furniture design, cloth 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 are very closely connected in terms of the need for professionals to have an eye for design and being inspired by each other.
Using research methodology to solve problems is one of the most important aspects of design, it enables the designer to properly assess the clients and audience needs. Part of a designer's job is to get to know the audience they intend on canvassing and what will be the placement of any produced material created.
The methods of teaching or the program and theories followed vary according to schools and field of study. Today, a design team, no matter the scale of the equipment, is usually composed by a master designer (the head of the team) that will have the responsibility to make decisions about the way the creative process should evolve, and a number of technical designers (the hands of the team) specialized in diverse areas according to the product proposed, depending on the type of design industrial design vs graphic design for example. For more complex products, the team will also be composed of professionals from other areas like engineers, advertising specialists, and others as required. The relationships established between team members will vary according to proposed product, the processes of production, the equipment available, or the theories followed during the idea development, but normally they are not too restrictive, giving an opportunity to everyone in the team to take a part in the creation process or at least to express an idea.
Design professions[edit]
Different types of designers include:
- 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
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Footnotes[edit]
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