What do Industrial Designers Actually Do?
Beyond sketching and CAD modelling, what is the purpose of industrial design? What is the end goal? I've had a go at answering, but there's no one correct answer! So I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments as well.
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I like to think of it as the in between of an artist and engineer
@SamDoesDesign
Жыл бұрын
For sure! I see art as self-expression And design is expression on behalf of the customer
I think people in general don't undestand how much work lays behind designing and as a consequence they don't value it properly.
@SamDoesDesign
Жыл бұрын
For sure! But it’s also our job to make sure people understand
@icanrelate
Жыл бұрын
Many people don't think...outside of themselves.
@cl5619
Жыл бұрын
I’m an architectural designer with education and years of experience in that field, plus I’ve done furniture and millwork design of low production quantities. I’ve recently have turned my attention to product design, and the differences I’ve noticed are quite profound from architecture. Something that’s mass produced takes a lot more thought and planning. The processes of production are of much concern. Material availability and cost are primary constraints too. I can do something like design a house that cost 3x the average and takes about 3x the labor to build, and that project can be done successfully. But if a industrial design for product has 3x the cost, then the company making it is likely a sunk ship.
@ngkngk875
Жыл бұрын
@@cl5619 would you say industrial design has a similar technical skill set as architecture?
@cl5619
Жыл бұрын
@@ngkngk875 There are technical skill similarities. But there’s a lot of same problem solving aspects and aesthetic aspirations as well.
I literally just discovered this career path today through my career advisor and through what she told me about it, I might’ve found the career I want that I never knew existed. Not only has it given me a WHOLE new appreciation for my belongings and surroundings, but it’s also just given me more inspiration to potentially lead a career as an ID. I’ve actually been doing it without even knowing. I always liked to redesign cars in my pastime, albeit most of them are sketches and doodles lol. I like to go into the details such as the headlights, door panels, seats, dashboard, etc. I’ve spend hours upon hours trying to think of new designs, what the buyers already like and what would make it even more desirable. Maybe adding in retro features while refreshing the look to attract buyers old and new. It made me realize that I’ve been doing it since childhood. Drawing washing machines, traffic lights, etc. Their designs just fascinated me and maybe this is the career I’ve been looking for. Almost feels a little too good to be true but there is not one career so far that has felt as familiar and fun as Industrial Design. I know it’s never gonna always be sunshine and rainbows but if it means putting my passion to work, I’m willing to give it a shot.
@joy_nduta
Жыл бұрын
I literally had the same realization in my second year of civil engineering. Coming to the end of my 3rd year now and I just submitted my application to an industrial design masters program. Go for it!
@severelyunderrated1057
Жыл бұрын
I HAVE THE SAME STORY!!
@Lethalpizzle1
Ай бұрын
@@joy_ndutadid you get accepted into the masters? Hope it worked out for you 🤞🏼👀 I studied Engineering and Business and now also want to pursue a Masters in ID or Product Design
THANK YOU, Sam. I feel fortunate to have just entered the industry when industrial designers like you are increasingly more vocal about their value and role. You endured some of the struggle for us. 🙌
@SamDoesDesign
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! We can all push our value up 🙌
I always have trouble describing what I’m studying to people outside the industry. I think design in peoples mind goes one of two ways, graphic or fashion. When really industrial is the most broad, its everywhere
@SamDoesDesign
Жыл бұрын
Exactly! Hopefully you can show them this video now 🙌
Great summary Sam! I see Industrial Design as a bridge between a technology (high tech/low tech) and people, and so empathy is a huge component of being able to design well. Love the comment about "defining a zeitgeist" 👌
@SamDoesDesign
Жыл бұрын
Thank you! I think a bridge between technology, people, and empathy is a good way to think about it
Great video! Industrial Design is my major in college and your videos have really given me ideas to improve my portfolio.
As someone who's trying getting into good colleges to learn Industrial design, finding this video is a Godsend. Lots of things I wish I learned way before, but hey, never too late!
Designers are shaping the world we live in. its Not only the visual/physical awareness to objects in a city or wherever, they also create the psychology we have, our routine comfort. I hope you understand what i want to say with that.
Great video Sam! You really managed to put the right words on the need for design ! I loved the green sock hahha I think design is also a very powerful tool for change!
@SamDoesDesign
Жыл бұрын
It definitely is a powerful tool! And I love the Kermit photo with the sock head haha
Great content Sam. I've been saying lately that people don't understand the value of good design, until they've experienced bad design. The challenge is to educate clients so all the money they would have wasted on bad design is instead invested in good designers.
@SamDoesDesign
Жыл бұрын
Yes! We definitely need to collectively educate everyone, not just existing clients, in the value of design
I had no idea about ID, randomly i stumbled upon the topic. Now that I have a very basic idea on industrial design it will give me an added perspective on how i look into anything and everything
@SamDoesDesign
Жыл бұрын
Welcome to the ID team! I’m glad you found this video interesting
Awesome insights! Thanks Sam.
@SamDoesDesign
Жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
Great video Sam! Keep on going! I’m a 20yrs exp ID and still find your video so true! Love your examples of the movies and Yoda vs Kermit😂
@SamDoesDesign
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! Maybe Yoda and Kermit could be our mascots 😅
thanks for your nice video. i like to study industrial design but for entering a college i need an artistic portfolio. but i how no artistic experience. what is your suggestion?
Cool video, from an Industrial Designer perspective is right on point
@SamDoesDesign
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!
@typhoys
Жыл бұрын
As a mechanical engineer, Industrial engineers are a pain in the ass, but the end product always blows my mind
Awesome video!! Glad there's a video I can point to if anyone has that very question :))
@SamDoesDesign
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! I get this question a lot haha
fantastic presentation. though I must say the green sock puppet now reminds me of the borzoi meme so honestly if it was cream with a black toe section, it could sell well
Another great video Sam
@SamDoesDesign
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!
Very well said, Sam.
@SamDoesDesign
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
Miss seeing your face but I love this new editing style to help visualise the processes you’re talking about!
@SamDoesDesign
Жыл бұрын
Ha! This style definitely took me longer to edit 🥲 this one was a huge effort
Super video Sam!!!
@SamDoesDesign
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!
Is product designing is only about digital product like app or web design .product designer can't design physical products ? Physical product only designed by industrial designers I have to chose my profession so guide me please ?
Industrial design, is a field within the greater discipline of Design. It's industrial because it's the design of products made by industry. Products made in a factory in mass numbers. It sits between disciplines like architecture and fine art. It's frustrating to me how many confuse industrial design with things like industrial engineering, and industry related activities. It might be easier had it simple been called product design. There's even an ad here on you tube for "industrial design services" that is not about products but about factories and other industrial functions. LoL. So much ignorance...
Awesome!
@SamDoesDesign
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!
Hi, I am aspiring designer. I’ll be joining college soon and though I prefer industrial design however with time tech has been taking off so I am inclined towards Ux/ui too. I would love som pe insight on the future scope by anyone. Also yes very efficiently explained Sam
@SamDoesDesign
Жыл бұрын
It’s definitely true that UX/UI has grown as an industry over the last 10 years, but people will always need physical objects. There is still a future in industrial design! I think the main thing is that you work on projects that interest you. Only you can decide which is for you. Have fun!
Damn, nice video
thanks for this nice video. do you have an idea about how the job market is in cananda?
@DJ_POOP_IT_OUT_FEAT_LIL_WiiWii
3 ай бұрын
dont come here
Could you maybe make a "a day in the life of" video I'm doing my internship next year and have no clue what it's going to look like.
@SamDoesDesign
Жыл бұрын
That would be a great video!
Industrial Designers create objects that can be used in the real world through a creative process and collaboration with a team to see if it can find a place to exist in the world
Currently doing this major but Me worried about not getting a job with
big fan of dyson but thanks for calling them out
@SamDoesDesign
Жыл бұрын
They need to be called out quite a bit I think 😅
Bro am a AUTOMOTIVE Design engineer can I able to switch from this to Industrial design ??
@SamDoesDesign
Жыл бұрын
It’s possible! You may need to re-train with either a masters or an internship to learn more about human factors, semiotics, usability etc. If you’re interested about “why” people use products instead of “how” they get made, then it’s definitely possible!
Before I think this is something I would love to do , I already do it everyday for fun After I now understand that a product needs a meticulously fine process to be successful after production 😅ty
@SamDoesDesign
Жыл бұрын
There’s fun in the process too! I’m glad you enjoyed the video 🙌
Is it worth to study industrial design worth study nowadays, since most of the design is done in China?
@SamDoesDesign
Жыл бұрын
Things are getting more collaborative and it’s interesting how technology is enabling new ways of working globally It’s definitely worth studying industrial design if you’re passionate about the thinking behind designs as well as the production!
industrial design is to design physical object which provide required unique solution for the physical problem
This video answers, imo, what we, industrial designers, can do better than AI.
Wow.
@SamDoesDesign
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
I think their job in my country is being unemployed so i would like to be but even we have universitys for industrial designers (and i preparing for the uni exam) no one cares about they (looks like) so.
I'm currently in my 3rd year of ID, preparing to go into honours next year and I still have no idea what we do ahaha
@SamDoesDesign
Жыл бұрын
Haha! I’m 5 years into the industry and I’m still figuring it out
hi there, how to understand the character of a product and create a mood board of that product. do you anybody making good tutorials on that?
@ajeesh3485
Жыл бұрын
or any text books, pdfs or anything
@SamDoesDesign
Жыл бұрын
That’s a great question! It comes from experience of knowing other products out there in the same market, plus which other objects from different markets can be borrowed from. If I was to make a mood board for a new chair design, I might look at automotive design, architecture, sculpture, and anything else that isn’t a chair. Maybe I should make a video on this!
They're typically overworked and underpaid.
@SamDoesDesign
Жыл бұрын
No comment 😅
@hik.creative
Жыл бұрын
@@SamDoesDesign dw buddy, no comment needed, I'm there with you 😅
Maybe we solve problem as a Industrial Designer and bring the Imagination to reality.
@SamDoesDesign
Жыл бұрын
Definitely! We add so much value to a product
- You know what architects do to buildings -kinda -that what we do to products
i want to simulate my reality so i think this is the degree for me
@SamDoesDesign
Жыл бұрын
The best way to predict the future is to design it 🙌
Dyson product design are lead by mechanical engineers, and not industrial design engineers and it shows.
@SamDoesDesign
Жыл бұрын
no comment haha
Safety legislation is ridiculous, manufacturers know what is safe, never the government. God bless America.🇺🇸⛪️
Someone who designs for commercial purpose?
And people I mean the so called smart STEMines think science is everything lmao. There's high contribution of arts, commerce everything we use! There's not only science/engineering. The things you are showing in this video almost 80% people gives all the credits to engineers... they just ignore the fact that there's a whole design process (arts), marketing innovation, costing (business/commerce).
@SamDoesDesign
Жыл бұрын
Yes! I definitely think it should be called STEAM instead, to include the arts People have been trying to rename it for years but I don’t think it’s stuck yet
@nycto16
Жыл бұрын
@@SamDoesDesign We don't have to rename? Industrial Design is under ADSS (Arts, Design and Social Sciences). Thing is Arts and Commerce needs more recognition than science.
@SamDoesDesign
Жыл бұрын
Oh I didn’t know that acronym! I like that one
@nycto16
Жыл бұрын
@@SamDoesDesign 😀
Lol.....This hoity toity talk. We produce what marketing tells us to produce, and it's often as cheap as possible and ends up in a landfill after 3-4 years.
@SamDoesDesign
Жыл бұрын
I’m sorry that you feel this way about your job and our profession. There are jobs out there where that’s not the case, and you can define what you design
Designers exploit their interns,easy. Someone has to do the work, aight?
Industrial Designer to Product Development to manufacturer - This is not what I designed. WTF have you done?
@SamDoesDesign
Жыл бұрын
Haha too true! The trick is to keep an eye on things throughout if possible 😅
Industrial designers? They design stuff and then the accountant makes it fail by strangling the budget on making it..! Don't make it to good.. Everything pretty much mass produced follows this principal, I know because i'm a former Industrial designer, Now i design and make my own things and they are not built to be rubbish.. thanks for the video sam :)
they are actualy failing their classes , thats what (im they)
Industrial vs Design, Industrial Designer vs Designer? 🫢
@SamDoesDesign
Жыл бұрын
All industrial designers are designers But not all designers are industrial designers 😅
@DV-dt9sq
Жыл бұрын
@@SamDoesDesign : That is true... And reminds me of my ow motto which is: "All Artists are creatives, but not all creatives are Artists". By the way, I am an Artist...and having good visual opinion I design furniture too. Thank you for your videos. 👌
@SamDoesDesign
Жыл бұрын
I like that motto! Thank you!
thanks for your nice video. i like to study industrial design but for entering a college i need an artistic portfolio. but i how no artistic experience. what is your suggestion?