Product / Industrial Designer
The pathSkills
You design physical products — furniture, consumer goods, hardware — and can also bridge into digital product, UI/UX, and PropTech product roles. It's adjacent to architecture's making-and-form sensibility, and is strongest with an M.Des from NID or IIT-IDC (via UCEED/CEED), though some enter directly with a strong product portfolio.
The steps in this path
Common questions
For product/industrial design, an M.Des is the strongest on-ramp, via UCEED/CEED.