Roles · Manufacturing

AI product designer

Prepares sketches and detailed drawings using computer-aided design equipment to develop manufactured products for business clients.

Kwame Rahman“I prepare sketches and modify designs using computer-aided design equipment.”An example character, not a real person.
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Product designer · What it does

Three tasks it takes off your hands

  1. Prepare sketches and detailed drawings using computer-aided design equipment.
  2. Modify and refine designs using working models to conform with specifications.
  3. Confer with departments to establish and evaluate design concepts.
Where these come from

The tasks of “Commercial and Industrial Designers” (O*NET 27-1021.00), as O*NET lists them:

  • Prepare sketches of ideas, detailed drawings, illustrations, artwork, or blueprints, using drafting instruments, paints and brushes, or computer-aided design equipment.
  • Modify and refine designs, using working models, to conform with customer specifications, production limitations, or changes in design trends.
  • Confer with engineering, marketing, production, or sales departments, or with customers, to establish and evaluate design concepts for manufactured products.

Product designer · Tools and industries

It works in the tools you already use

  • Adobe Creative Cloud software
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Dassault Systemes SolidWorks
  • Figma
  • Microsoft Excel

Industries it fits

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Role facts from O*NET 31.0 Database (U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), CC BY 4.0) and ANZSCO 2022 (Australian Bureau of Statistics, CC BY 4.0), written in our words. Sources and credits