What do Industrial Designers Actually Do?

[@hamishcraven748]

I like to think of it as the in between of an artist and engineer

[@SamDoesDesign]

For sure! I see art as self-expression And design is expression on behalf of the customer

[@DV-dt9sq]

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]

For sure! But it’s also our job to make sure people understand

[@icanrelate]

Many people don't think...outside of themselves.

[@cl5619]

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]

@@cl5619 would you say industrial design has a similar technical skill set as architecture?

[@cl5619]

@@ngkngk875 There are technical skill similarities. But there’s a lot of same problem solving aspects and aesthetic aspirations as well.

[@reneeanagbo]

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]

Thank you so much! We can all push our value up 🙌

[@marlonvasquez6531]

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]

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]

I HAVE THE SAME STORY!!

[@Lethalpizzle1]

@@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

[@frustavogongpseudo-intelle8561]

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.

[@ChrisPeterHardy]

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]

Thank you! I think a bridge between technology, people, and empathy is a good way to think about it

[@jaimemiranda8217]

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]

Exactly! Hopefully you can show them this video now 🙌

[@spacedaway]

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!

[@icv14]

Great video! Industrial Design is my major in college and your videos have really given me ideas to improve my portfolio.

[@PrimeChigga]

I would really appreciate your response. How do you feel about it? I know it’s an open question but i’d love to hear more about it

[@lincolnblack3140]

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]

Yes! We definitely need to collectively educate everyone, not just existing clients, in the value of design

[@Athene_F]

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]

Welcome to the ID team! I’m glad you found this video interesting

[@Designotherwise]

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]

It definitely is a powerful tool! And I love the Kermit photo with the sock head haha

[@diogopsilva]

Cool video, from an Industrial Designer perspective is right on point

[@SamDoesDesign]

Thank you so much!

[@typhoys]

As a mechanical engineer, Industrial engineers are a pain in the ass, but the end product always blows my mind

[@MrRadiyo]

“It’s prop design for real life” is a banger of a line

[@SamDoesDesign]

I forgot I said that haha. But it does sound like a great line!

[@slant3d]

Awesome insights! Thanks Sam.

[@SamDoesDesign]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Mtmtmtmtmtmtmtmtmtmtmt]

Awesome video!! Glad there's a video I can point to if anyone has that very question :))

[@SamDoesDesign]

Thank you so much! I get this question a lot haha

[@barrellcooper6490]

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...

[@LukaJanjgava-q9c]

- You know what architects do to buildings -kinda -that what we do to products

[@tftg458]

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]

That would be a great video!

[@Sentryalmighty]

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

[@talkingheadzzz2449]

This video answers, imo, what we, industrial designers, can do better than AI.

[@shubhamshinde4939]

industrial design is to design physical object which provide required unique solution for the physical problem

[@yatapan-m6y]

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

[@eunicec892]

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]

Thank you so much! Maybe Yoda and Kermit could be our mascots 😅

[@Alyssa-ts8yk]

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]

There’s fun in the process too! I’m glad you enjoyed the video 🙌

[@hik.horticultures]

They're typically overworked and underpaid.

[@SamDoesDesign]

No comment 😅

[@hik.horticultures]

@@SamDoesDesign dw buddy, no comment needed, I'm there with you 😅

[@SciencewithRishit]

Basically Industrial designers are the OGs ❤

[@inferno0202]

Another great video Sam

[@SamDoesDesign]

Thank you so much!

[@lemilemi5385]

My late teenage kids don’t cant think of ANY vocation. Im an Architect and they’ve only become cynical about Architecture because they’ve heard me complain about how little we are paid compared to trades. Perhaps ID would be desirable for them? However I wonder how AI will affect it? Any ideas anyone (for an over the hill tired father)

[@donya80]

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]

dont come here

[@Saba-su4ld]

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?

[@anushkayadav1847]

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]

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!

[@rygaled8970]

Currently doing this major but Me worried about not getting a job with

[@rayliu5683]

Very well said, Sam.

[@SamDoesDesign]

Thank you!

[@nishantchaudhary3968]

Maybe we solve problem as a Industrial Designer and bring the Imagination to reality.

[@SamDoesDesign]

Definitely! We add so much value to a product

[@robertojofre15]

big fan of dyson but thanks for calling them out

[@SamDoesDesign]

They need to be called out quite a bit I think 😅

[@wanttoplay5386]

In industrial design can we do automotive design like cars ?

[@aj1554]

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]

Haha! I’m 5 years into the industry and I’m still figuring it out

[@productdesignermaker]

Super video Sam!!!

[@SamDoesDesign]

Thank you so much!

[@jessicahearne]

Miss seeing your face but I love this new editing style to help visualise the processes you’re talking about!

[@SamDoesDesign]

Ha! This style definitely took me longer to edit 🥲 this one was a huge effort

[@Austinn72]

i want to simulate my reality so i think this is the degree for me

[@SamDoesDesign]

The best way to predict the future is to design it 🙌

[@codexous]

Damn, nice video

[@thecolorblinddesigner1094]

Awesome!

[@SamDoesDesign]

Thank you so much!

[@AhmadArtAndCraft]

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 ?

[@袁司洲]

it's difficult but interesting

[@sebart9363]

Bro am a AUTOMOTIVE Design engineer can I able to switch from this to Industrial design ??

[@SamDoesDesign]

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!

[@sarahsolangechannel1631]

Is it worth to study industrial design worth study nowadays, since most of the design is done in China?

[@SamDoesDesign]

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!

[@muglasefiri48]

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.

[@dianaazeneth]

Wow.

[@SamDoesDesign]

Thank you!

[@BlindBiker3]

Safety legislation is ridiculous, manufacturers know what is safe, never the government. God bless America.🇺🇸⛪️

[@ajeesh3485]

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]

or any text books, pdfs or anything

[@SamDoesDesign]

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!

[@griptopia]

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 :)

[@baskapes762]

Industrial Designer to Product Development to manufacturer - This is not what I designed. WTF have you done?

[@SamDoesDesign]

Haha too true! The trick is to keep an eye on things throughout if possible 😅

[@Adrian-wd4rn]

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]

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

[@lastofux]

Dyson product design are lead by mechanical engineers, and not industrial design engineers and it shows.

[@SamDoesDesign]

no comment haha

[@nycto16]

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]

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]

@@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]

Oh I didn’t know that acronym! I like that one

[@nycto16]

@@SamDoesDesign 😀

[@Flix-f6q]

Designers exploit their interns,easy. Someone has to do the work, aight?

[@DhritiGupta-gg8qk]

Someone who designs for commercial purpose?

[@idk-ti3og]

they are actualy failing their classes , thats what (im they)

[@ared2720]

Industrial vs Design, Industrial Designer vs Designer? 🫢

[@SamDoesDesign]

All industrial designers are designers But not all designers are industrial designers 😅

[@DV-dt9sq]

@@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]

I like that motto! Thank you!

[@Saba-su4ld]

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?