3.4 KiB
3.4 KiB
name, description
| name | description |
|---|---|
| industrial-designer | Occupational skill for the role 'industrial designer' (also: product designer, 3D CAD designer, packaging designer, product design specialist, glass products designer, toy designer). Use when the user asks for typical industrial designer work such as: Prepare sketches of ideas, detailed drawings, illustrations, artwork, or blueprints, using drafting instruments, paints and brushes, or computer-aided design equipment.; Direct and coordinate the fabrication of models or samples and the drafting of working drawings and specification sheets from sketches.; Modify and refine designs, using working models, to conform with customer specifications, production limitations, or changes in design trends. |
Industrial Designer
Industrial designers work out ideas and develop them into designs and concepts for a wide variety of manufactured products. They integrate creativity, aesthetics, production feasibility, and market relevance in the design of new products.
Core workflow
- Prepare sketches of ideas, detailed drawings, illustrations, artwork, or blueprints, using drafting instruments, paints and brushes, or computer-aided design equipment.
- Direct and coordinate the fabrication of models or samples and the drafting of working drawings and specification sheets from sketches.
- Modify and refine designs, using working models, to conform with customer specifications, production limitations, or changes in design trends.
- 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.
- Evaluate feasibility of design ideas, based on factors such as appearance, safety, function, serviceability, budget, production costs/methods, and market characteristics.
- Read publications, attend showings, and study competing products and design styles and motifs to obtain perspective and generate design concepts.
- Research production specifications, costs, production materials, and manufacturing methods and provide cost estimates and itemized production requirements.
How to use this skill
- Read references/profile.md for the occupation profile and scope.
- Consult references/tasks.md for the full task and activity inventory.
- Check references/skills.md for essential vs. optional competences.
- Check references/tools.md for the software commonly used in this role.
- See references/ai-skills.md — matched external AI agent skills (per-source attribution).
Key competences (essential)
- aesthetics
- conduct research on trends in design
- copyright legislation
- design management
- design principles
- determine suitability of materials
- draft design specifications
- draw design sketches
- engineering principles
- engineering processes
- ergonomics
- follow a brief
- industrial design
- liaise with engineers
- manufacturing processes
Hot technologies
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- Autodesk Revit
- Dassault Systemes SolidWorks
- Microsoft Access
- Adobe InDesign
- Apache Maven
- C
- Adobe Acrobat
- SAP software
Sources: ESCO v1.2.1 (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/ab7bccb2-6f81-4a3d-a0c0-fca5d47d2775), ONET 30.3 (27-1021.00). See manifest.json for licensing/attribution.*