Will AI replace Commercial and Industrial Designers?

−Already happening(2)

• Read publications, attend showings, and study competing products and design styles and motifs to obtain perspective and generate design concepts.
• Advise corporations on issues involving corporate image projects or problems.

~Within reach(11)

• 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.
• Present designs and reports to customers or design committees for approval and discuss need for modification.
• Research production specifications, costs, production materials, and manufacturing methods and provide cost estimates and itemized production requirements.

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+Out of reach(4)

• Evaluate feasibility of design ideas, based on factors such as appearance, safety, function, serviceability, budget, production costs/methods, and market characteristics.
• Develop manufacturing procedures and monitor the manufacture of their designs in a factory to improve operations and product quality.
• Fabricate models or samples in paper, wood, glass, fabric, plastic, metal, or other materials, using hand or power tools.
• Coordinate the look and function of product lines.