How do they match: Commercial and Industrial Designers

Design and develop manufactured products, such as cars, home appliances, and children's toys. Combine artistic talent with research on product use, marketing, and materials to create the most functional and appealing product design.

Supervise assistants' work throughout the design process.
Confer with engineering, marketing, production, or sales departments, or with customers, to establish and evaluate design concepts for manufactured products.
Coordinate the look and function of product lines.
Develop manufacturing procedures and monitor the manufacture of their designs in a factory to improve operations and product quality.
Direct and coordinate the fabrication of models or samples and the drafting of working drawings and specification sheets from sketches.
Evaluate feasibility of design ideas, based on factors such as appearance, safety, function, serviceability, budget, production costs/methods, and market characteristics.
Investigate product characteristics such as the product's safety and handling qualities, its market appeal, how efficiently it can be produced, and ways of distributing, using, and maintaining it.
Modify and refine designs, using working models, to conform with customer specifications, production limitations, or changes in design trends.
Participate in new product planning or market research, including studying the potential need for new products.
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.

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