Industrial Design

Industrial Design is a process of design in which creative act of determining and defining a product's form and features takes place in advance of physically making a product. In addition to function and form it studies the connection between product, user, and environment. It may affect technical aspects through usability design and form relationships. Industrial Designers work with other professionals such as engineers who design the mechanical aspects of the product assuring functionality and manufacturability, and with marketers to identify and fulfill customer needs and expectations.

Although the process of design may be considered 'creative,' many analytical processes also take place. In fact, Industrial Design often uses user research, sketching, comparative product research, model making, prototyping and testing. Industrial designers often utilise image editing softwares to produce renders in 2D and freeform surface modeling, computer-aided industrial design (CAID) softwares to put up their design intent in 3D.

Product characteristics specified by industrial designers may include the overall form of the object, the location of details with respect to one another, colours, texture, form, and aspects concerning the use of the product. Additionally they may specify aspects concerning the production process, choice of materials and the way the product is presented to the consumer at the point of sale. In addition to creative problem solving Industrial Designers help style a product to make it appear aesthetically appealing.