Where a industrial designer can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a industrial designer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Industrial designers work out ideas and develop them into designs and concepts for a wide variety of manufactured products. They integrate creativity, aesthetics, production feasibility, and market relevance in the design of new products.
- Highest coverage recorded
- 81%
- Destinations
- 12each with a full record
- Within reach
- 2difficulty under 55
- Skills on file
- 67required or supplementary
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
- furniture designer 46% covered · difficulty 56
- design engineer 41% covered · difficulty 61.5
- engine designer 41% covered · difficulty 55.6
- automotive designer 38% covered · difficulty 65.1
- industrial tool design engineer 38% covered · difficulty 65
- container equipment design engineer 36% covered · difficulty 64
- tooling engineer 36% covered · difficulty 68.5
- printed circuit board designer 35% covered · difficulty 60.6
- fluid power engineer 34% covered · difficulty 66
- manufacturing cost estimator 34% covered · difficulty 62.8
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How these figures were compiled
Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a industrial designer already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.