Product Designer

A Product Designer is in charge of creating and designing consumer goods. This position's responsibilities include enhancing the designs of currently available items and examining successful concepts introduced by rival companies with similar products.

A Product Designer's typical roles are listed below:

• Furniture Designer: They use conventional and cutting-edge techniques to produce beautiful designs. These Product Designers start with paper designs and then use CAD software to give them a more detailed appearance.
• Industrial Designer: An Industrial Designer creates technological items. Industrial designers usually do not create the entire product; instead, they concentrate on the technical elements of general usability and aesthetics of the design.

Some of a Product Designer's roles and responsibilities include the following:

• Carrying out market research to identify market gaps, transforming findings into workable concepts and designs that will satiate customers, and articulating requirements precisely for the design team and stakeholders.
• Working with the design team to offer constructive criticism on processes, engaging audiences, gathering feedback through prototypes, blueprints, and sketches, and 3D modeling software for intricate designs.
• Making models and prototypes to test functionality, looking into equipment, supplies, and applicable design methods, and enhancing the appearance of already-existing products.

Major educational qualifications required for Product Designer are:

• The following qualifications are required of a Product Designer:
• Must have a bachelor's degree in engineering, manufacturing, industrial design, or a closely related discipline.

Here are four alternative roles that someone with 0-3 years of experience in India, with a background in Product Design Engineering, could consider:

• Junior Design Engineer: Assists in the design process at a well-established company in the same industry.
• Design Associate: Collaborates with a design consultancy to develop innovative design solutions.
• Manufacturing Engineer: Utilizes expertise in manufacturing processes at a company specializing in similar products as in your portfolio.
• Product Development Engineer: Applies design skills to a new application in a related industry at a leading company.

According to a McKinsey & Company analysis, one job that is expanding is Product Designer, which will see a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 10.36% between 2021 and 2028. India is well-known for providing technological services, becoming increasingly well-known as a center for Product Designers globally.
A job in Product Design offers several employment choices, and as a result, this professional sector has tremendous growth potential. Industries need Product Designers because they need fresh, inventive items and designs with stimulating concepts to keep consumers interested in buying their products. A technical background and a creative imagination are prerequisites for the career.