Interior Designers

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Designer, Interior Design Consultant, Interior Design Coordinator, Interior Designer

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What they do:
Plan, design, and furnish the internal space of rooms or buildings. Design interior environments or create physical layouts that are practical, aesthetic, and conducive to the intended purposes. May specialize in a particular field, style, or phase of interior design.
On the job, you would:
  • Design plans to be safe and to be compliant with the American Disabilities Act (ADA).
  • Use computer-aided drafting (CAD) and related software to produce construction documents.
  • Research health and safety code requirements to inform design.

Knowledge

Engineering and Technology

  • design
  • building and construction

Business

  • customer service
  • sales and marketing

Arts and Humanities

  • English language
  • music, dance, visual arts, drama, or sculpture

Safety and Government

  • public safety and security

Skills

Basic Skills

  • listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
  • reading work related information

Problem Solving

  • noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

Social

  • changing what is done based on other people's actions
  • looking for ways to help people

Abilities

Verbal

  • communicate by speaking
  • listen and understand what people say

Ideas and Logic

  • come up with lots of ideas
  • create new and original ideas

Personality

People interested in this work like activities that include creating, designing, and making your own rules.

They do well at jobs that need:

  • Attention to Detail
  • Integrity
  • Dependability
  • Cooperation
  • Adaptability/Flexibility
  • Initiative

Technology

You might use software like this on the job:

Computer aided design CAD software

  • Autodesk Revit Hot Technology In Demand
  • Trimble SketchUp Pro Hot Technology In Demand

Presentation software

  • Microsoft PowerPoint Hot Technology

Graphics or photo imaging software

  • Adobe Creative Cloud software Hot Technology In Demand
  • Adobe Illustrator Hot Technology

Education

Education: (rated 4 of 5)
bachelor's degree
usually needed

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Job Outlook

Average
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