Interior Designer

Plan, design, and furnish the internal space of rooms or buildings. Design interior environments or create physical layouts that are practical, aesthetic, and conducive to the intended purposes. May specialize in a particular field, style, or phase of interior design.

O*NET reports this occupation under titles such as: Certified Kitchen Designer; Color and Materials Designer; Commercial Interior Designer; Decorating Consultant; Designer; Interior Decorator; Interior Design Consultant; Interior Design Coordinator; Interior Designer; Registered Interior Designer

Tasks

• Design plans to be safe and to be compliant with the American Disabilities Act (ADA).
• Use computer-aided drafting (CAD) and related software to produce construction documents.
• Research health and safety code requirements to inform design.
• Confer with client to determine factors affecting planning of interior environments, such as budget, architectural preferences, purpose, and function.
• Advise client on interior design factors, such as space planning, layout and use of furnishings or equipment, and color coordination.
• Coordinate with other professionals, such as contractors, architects, engineers, and plumbers, to ensure job success.
• Review and detail shop drawings for construction plans.
• Inspect construction work on site to ensure its adherence to the design plans.
• Render design ideas in form of paste-ups or drawings.
• Subcontract fabrication, installation, and arrangement of carpeting, fixtures, accessories, draperies, paint and wall coverings, art work, furniture, and related items.
• Select or design, and purchase furnishings, art work, and accessories.
• Estimate material requirements and costs, and present design to client for approval.
• Research and explore the use of new materials, technologies, and products to incorporate into designs.
• Design spaces to be environmentally friendly, using sustainable, recycled materials when feasible.
• Formulate environmental plan to be practical, esthetic, and conducive to intended purposes, such as raising productivity or selling merchandise.

Knowledge

• Design
• Customer and Personal Service
• Building and Construction
• English Language
• Sales and Marketing
• Administration and Management
• Computers and Electronics
• Public Safety and Security
• Fine Arts
• Administrative
• Psychology
• Personnel and Human Resources

Skills

• Reading Comprehension
• Active Listening
• Speaking
• Critical Thinking
• Writing
• Active Learning
• Monitoring
• Mathematics

Abilities

• Fluency of Ideas
• Originality
• Oral Comprehension
• Oral Expression
• Visualization
• Near Vision
• Written Comprehension
• Problem Sensitivity
• Visual Color Discrimination
• Speech Recognition
• Speech Clarity
• Written Expression
• Deductive Reasoning
• Category Flexibility
• Inductive Reasoning
• Information Ordering
• Far Vision
• Mathematical Reasoning
• Selective Attention