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Product Designer
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Product Designers work alongside a company’s industrial team to design and add improvements to basic consumer products, like chairs, beds or tables. Some Product Designers may also create more complex products like electronic or medical tools and equipment. To come up with ideas for potential products to design, they’ll conduct market research to identify the preferences of their target customer base and will create rough sketches according to the research details. Product Designers will also build and outline specifications for products for stakeholders and design team members to review. They’ll collaborate closely with the design team to come up with unique product designs and will provide feedback on ways to make the product more convenient and visually appealing to customers.
A Product Designer, or Retail Product Designer, develops and designs a wide variety of consumer products. Their main duties include building designs for new products, adding improvements to existing products and conducting market research for new product design ideas.
A Product Designer should be able to fulfill various duties and responsibilities. The following are some duties and responsibilities a Product Designer should be able to execute:
- Developing product design concepts from client requirements
- Confirming product design specifications with clients
- Preparing design specifications through sketches
- Budgeting for product designs with clients
- Setting schedules for project completion with clients and adhering to budgets and schedules
A competitive Product Designer will have certain skills and qualifications, including:
- The ability to use a computer and computer software including CAD software
- Spatial and visual awareness
- Knowledge of engineering science and technology if you are working as a product designer for a computer company
- Knowledge of the industrial processes and standards, as well as emerging new technology for the industry where you work
- Commercial awareness of the market for your product and how to place your product as marketable against your competitors
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