What do skateboards, cell phones, and wheel chairs have in common? The simple answer--the industrial designer. Industrial designers are the creative experts behind the thousands of products that make our lives more efficient and comfortable every day.
The development of any new product, from sporting products to telephones and medical equipment, requires a team of experts. The industrial designer is one of these experts.
Using the special methods and techniques of modern design, industrial designers work to either improve existing products or to create totally new ones. They design not only the features and appearance of a product, but also the structure and functional relationships that make the product work. Industrial designers help develop an overall plan of what product is required, for what market, in what quantities, by what manufacturing methods, from what materials, and at what costs, so that the final product will satisfy the user.