About Career

Do you love designing and creating new things? Can you visualize different objects in your head? If yes, you should consider a career in product designing.

Product designing is all about designing creative products that will be used by consumers. These products can be housewares, furniture, plastic items, industrial products, digital products etc. Product designer deals with the aesthetics, durability and the usability of the product.

Product Design is often confused with Industrial Design.  Product designing is a  subset of Industrial designing. Product designing deals with designing aspect of the product. For the product designer, it is not mandatory to know the manufacturing process. For Industrial designer knowledge of designing and manufacturing process both are required for mass production of the product. Usually, product designers are not required engineering skills to design products like home decor, housewares, accessories etc. Product designers don't work on technical functionalities of the product. The industrial designer uses engineering designs or product designs to develop industrial products like Laptops, Phone, appliances etc.

What are the roles and responsibilities for Product Designer?

  • Design new products.
  • Improve the design of existing products.
  • Collect feedback from the consumer.
  • Understand consumer preferences.
  • Research materials and techniques.
  • Produce prototypes and test functionality
  • Discuss with internal and external stakeholders to set design.
  • Working on ideas as part of a team or developing design concepts using CAD (computer-aided design).
  • Evaluate the safety of the product.

What are the key skills required for Product Designing?

  • Computer Aided Design (CAD)
  • Interaction Design
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • User Research
  • User Experience (UX) Design
  • Product Development

What are the career opportunities in Product Designing?

  • Industrial Designer
  • Ceramic designer
  • Lifestyle designer
  • Plastic dye designer
  • Furniture designer
  • Product Designer

What is the salary and demand for Product Designer?

  • Demand is High for Product Designing.
  • Salary levels are High for Product Designing. For fresher average salary is more than 5 Lacs.
  • Fees levels of the course is Medium. To pursue this course student need to spend 3 to 4 Lakhs.
  • Level of preparation for Product Designing is Medium. Students spend 1 year to prepare for entrance test of Product Designing.

1 Fees
Medium
2 Demand
High
3 Salary
High
4 Level Of Preparation
Medium

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What education is required to become a Product Designer?

  • Student can do 12- Any stream. Then complete B.Des in Product design. Further you can Proceed with M.Des in Product design.
  • Student can do 12- Any stream. Then complete B.Des in Industrial design. Further you can Proceed with M.Des in Industrial design.
  • Student can do 12th (Maths) . Then complete B.Tech in Mechanical. Further you can Proceed with M.Des in Product design.
  • Student can do 12th (Maths) . Then complete B.Tech in Automobile. Further you can Proceed with M.Des in Product design.

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What are the best colleges for Product Designing in India?

For Graduation

  • National Institute of Design - [NID], Ahmedabad
  • Pearl Academy, New Delhi
  • National Institute of Design - [NID], Gandhi Nagar
  • Symbiosis Institute of Design - [SID], Pune
  • Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore
  • Arch College of Design and Business, Jaipur
  • Pearl Academy, Mumbai
  • MIT Institute of Design - [MITID], Pune
  • DSK International School of Design - [DSKISD], Pune
  • Vogue Institute of Fashion Technology, Bangalore

For Post Graduation

  • National Institute of Design - [NID], Ahmedabad
  • Pearl Academy, New Delhi
  • National Institute of Design - [NID], Gandhi Nagar
  • Industrial Design Centre, Indian Institute of Technology - [IDC], Mumbai
  • Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore
  • Arch College of Design and Business, Jaipur
  • Pearl Academy, Mumbai
  • MIT Institute of Design - [MITID], Pune
  • Indian Institute of Technology - [IIT], Mumbai
  • Unitedworld Institute of Design - [UID], Gandhi Nagar