Interior Designers

Also called: Designer, Interior Design Consultant, Interior Design Coordinator

Career Cluster: Architecture & Construction
What they do:
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.
On the job, you would:
  • 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.
Knowledge icon KNOWLEDGE

Safety and Government
  • public safety and security
Engineering and Technology
  • design
  • building and construction
Arts and Humanities
  • English language
  • music, dance, visual arts, drama, or sculpture
Business
  • customer service
  • sales and marketing
Skills Image SKILLS

Social
  • changing what is done based on other people's actions
  • looking for ways to help people
Basic Skills
  • listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
  • reading work related information
Problem Solving
  • noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
Abilities Image ABILITIES

Ideas and Logic
  • come up with lots of ideas
  • create new and original ideas
Verbal
  • communicate by speaking
  • listen and understand what people say
Personality Image PERSONALITY

People interested in this work like activities that include creating, designing, and making your own rules.

They do well at jobs that need:
  • Innovation
  • Attention to Detail
  • Dependability
  • Cooperation
  • Adaptability
  • Self-Confidence
Technology Image TECHNOLOGY

You might use software like this on the job:

Computer aided design CAD software
  • Autodesk Revit
  • Trimble SketchUp Pro
Presentation software
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
Graphics or photo imaging software
  • Adobe Creative Cloud software
  • Adobe Illustrator
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Bachelor's degree usually needed SEARCH ALL PROGRAMS & MAJORS SEARCH COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
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New job opportunities are likely in the future.

Salary:
High: $106,090.00
Median: $63,490.00
Low: $38,480.00
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