Industrial design is the process of developing product ideas and preparing projects for end users, to be manufactured by the industry, following criteria such as functionality, taste of the target group and suitability to the needs of the users.
Industrial design is a profession that forms the relation between humans and products manufactured with industrial methods. As products are aimed to reach a mass of consumers in the market and therefore have to be manufactured in mass quantities, industrial methods aim at attaining economy by optimizing the cost of expenses like material, operation cycle and labor. The designer is well aware of these methods and using the language for these processes, provides communication with the other components of the industrial environment (engineers, business administrators).
The designer expresses the relation between products and humans with all the visual, aesthetic and functional values that s/he places upon the product in order to provide a comfortable, healthy, safe, communicative relation during usage, then to provide this product to the consumer.
The designer, further to the needs of industrialization, while responding to the requirements of users, is also in the effort of creating a difference which will provide competitive advantage on the product for the entrepreneur who will recruit him, manufacture the product and realize its marketing.
The general definition of design may be the humanification of technology.
Industrial design is the professional service of creating and developing concepts and specifications that optimize the function, value and appearance of products and systems for the mutual benefit of both user and manufacturer.
Industrial designers develop these concepts and specifications through the collection, analysis and synthesis of data guided by the special requirements of the client or manufacturer. They are trained to prepare clear and concise recommendations through drawings, models and verbal descriptions.
