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A designer is a person who designs something. Perhaps the broadest definition is that provided by psychologist Herbert Simon
Herbert Simon

Herbert Alexander Simon was an United States psychologist whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive psychology, computer science, public administration, economics, management, philosophy of science and sociology and was a professor, most notably, at Carnegie Mellon University....
: 'Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.'

As well as amateur designers, there are many professional designer occupations (see list of Examples). To become a professional designer usually requires study to degree level and certain work experience or training.






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A designer is a person who designs something. Perhaps the broadest definition is that provided by psychologist Herbert Simon
Herbert Simon

Herbert Alexander Simon was an United States psychologist whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive psychology, computer science, public administration, economics, management, philosophy of science and sociology and was a professor, most notably, at Carnegie Mellon University....
: 'Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.'

As well as amateur designers, there are many professional designer occupations (see list of Examples). To become a professional designer usually requires study to degree level and certain work experience or training. Entry to some design professions is strictly controlled or limited by legal requirements, but use of the title 'designer' is generally un-regulated.

Working as a designer usually implies being creative
Creative

The term creative can refer to:*Creative , referring to materials, , or collateral prescriptively produced through creativity and the creative process...
 in a particular area of expertise. Designers are usually responsible for developing the concept and making drawings or models for something new that will be made by someone else. Their work takes into consideration not only how something will look, but also how it will be used and how it will be made. There can be great differences between the working styles and principles of designers in different professions.

In the 1980s the term 'designer' began to be applied to products such as furniture and clothing that had distinctive aesthetics or were the work of certain 'signature' designers. So, for example, there were 'designer chairs' and 'designer jeans
Designer jeans

Designer jeans are high-fashion jeans. The Nakash brothers are generally credited with starting the trend when they launched their Jordache line of jeans in 1978....
'. The term later came to be applied to anything that was ostentatiously created for a purpose, such as 'designer drug
Designer drug

Designer drug is a term used to describe psychoactive Psychoactive drugs which are created to get around existing drug laws, usually by modifying the molecular structures of existing drugs to varying degrees, or less commonly by finding drugs with entirely different chemical structures that produce similar subjective effects to illegal recre...
s', or even the 'designer stubble
Stubble

Stubble is the unshaven hair growth that exists before it becomes long enough to cover the skin and be considered fully grown. The term stubble is most often used to describe facial hair that is too short to be considered a full beard or moustache, although it can also refer to any regrowth of shaven hair , or to the short stalks left in...
' worn by some fashionable men.

Examples


Different types of designers include:

  • architect
    Architect

    An architect is trained and licenced in planning and designing buildings, and participates in supervising the construction of a building. Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton , i.e....
     or architectural designer
    Architectural designer

    An architectural designer is an architect that is primarily involved in the design of buildings or urban landscapes, as opposed to the construction documents and management required to construct it....
    ,
  • automotive design
    Automotive design

    Automotive design is the profession involved in the development of the appearance, and to some extent the ergonomics, of motor vehicles or more specifically road vehicles....
    er,
  • broadcast designer.
  • costume designer
    Costume Designer

    File:Robert Edmond Jones.jpgA costume designer is a person whose responsibility is to design costumes for a film or Stage production. He or she is considered part of the "production team", alongside the Theatre director, scenic design and lighting designers as well as the sound designer....
    ,
  • engineering designer,
  • fashion design
    Fashion design

    Fashion design is the applied art dedicated to clothing and lifestyle accessories created within the cultural and social influences of a specific time....
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  • game design
    Game design

    Game design is the process of designing the content and rules of a game. The term is also used to describe both the game design embodied in an actual game as well as documentation that describes such a design....
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  • graphic design
    Graphic design

    The term graphic design can refer to a number of artistic and professional disciplines which focus on visual communication and presentation. Various methods are used to create and combine symbols, images and/or words to create a visual representation of ideas and messages....
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  • industrial design
    Industrial design

    Industrial design is an applied art whereby the aesthetics and usability of mass-produced Product may be improved for marketability and Manufacturing....
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  • interaction design
    Interaction design

    Interaction Design is the discipline of defining the behavior of products and systems that a user can interact with. The practice typically centers around complex technology systems such as Computer software, Handheld devices, and other electronic devices....
    er,
  • interior design
    Interior design

    Interior Design is a profession concerned with anything that is found inside a space - walls, windows, doors, finishes, textures, light, furnishings and furniture....
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  • jewelry design
    Jewelry design

    Jewelry design is the art or profession of creating, crafting, fabricating, or rendering designs for jewelry. This is an ancient practice of the goldsmith or metalworker that evolved to a billion-dollar industry with the odyssey from ancient cultures into the machine age....
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  • landscape design
    Landscape design

    Landscape design is similar to landscape architecture. Landscape Design focuses more on the artistic merits of design, while Landscape Architecture encompasses the artistic design as well as structural engineering....
    er, lighting designer,
  • motion design
    Motion design

    Motion Design is the art of graphic design within the context of motion graphics such as film, video or computer animation. Examples include the typography and graphics you see as the titles for a film, or opening sequences for television or the spinning, web-based animations, three-dimensional logo for a television channel....
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  • scenic design
    Scenic design

    File:Robert Edmond Jones.jpgScenic design is the creation of Theatre, as well as film or television theatrical scenery. Scenic designers have traditionally come from a variety of artistic backgrounds, but nowadays, generally speaking, they are trained professionals, often with Master of Fine Arts degrees in theatre arts....
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  • systems design
    Systems design

    Systems design is the process or art of defining the architecture, components, modules, interfaces, and data for a system to satisfy specified requirements....
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  • web design
    Web design

    Web Page design requires conceptualizing, planning, modeling, and executing electronic media content and its delivery via the Internet using technologies suitable for rendering and presentation by web browsers or other web-based graphical user interfaces ....
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See also

  • Design engineer
    Design engineer

    Design engineer is a general term that covers multiple engineering disciplines including but not limited to electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and civil engineer engineering, architectural engineering in the U.S....
  • Design firm
    Design firm

    A design firm is an organisation that designs any of a variety of things, in one or more of the design fields, such as graphic design, web design, architectural design, engineering, or interior design....
  • Design thinking
    Design thinking

    Design thinking is a process for practical, Creativity resolution of problems or issues that looks for an improved future result. Unlike analytical thinking, design thinking is a creative process based around the "building up" of ideas....
  • Visual arts
    Visual arts

    The visual arts are Art#Art forms that focus on the creation of works which are primarily visual in nature, such as drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, and filmmaking....