Product designers are required to employ a wide range of skills, creative design, craft and engineering skills and also processes to design and shape a range of products for a variety of potential applications. A product designer has to balance engineering in an innovative way with functional requirements. Also requiring them to come with a certain aesthetic appeal. Most products that are designed are usually either to be for mass production or depending on their applications in small numbers. You will find that these usually tend to fall into the following areas. These are medical, scientific, industrial, commercial and finally for the domestic area.
The process of product design work involves the designing, modeling, testing and finally producing prototypes of new products potentially for manufacturing. The role of a product designer can also require existing proven products to be further improved upon.