Should home decoration designers be more inclined to marketing or to improve their own design capabilities?

Many designers nowadays have just graduated from school and want to do design before they have passed the internship period. There are even designers who don’t know as much as the clients. This is not actually called design.

1. A good designer should use mature design solutions to impress customers.

Even if your marketing skills are very high, get a customer and sign an order. But you are not familiar with the design, technology, materials, etc., and the later construction is a mess. How to explain to the company, how to explain to the customer, and how to explain to yourself. Customers trust you to give their home to you, and you should design it carefully to make customers feel that their money is worth their money. You should find the right one, so that customers can bring you more resources. Instead of pretending to make customers feel that everything is not worth it and that everything has problems. Eventually, it will lead to distrust of customers, it is difficult to get project funds, and the people around you will no longer become your development targets. Designers serve clients or are commissioned to design. You should meet the customer's needs to the greatest extent possible based on professional skills and help solve their problems. This is the designer's primary responsibility and job.

2. A good designer must not only be able to design, but also understand processes, techniques, and materials.

A good interior designer must grasp the overall situation. Understand the process. Every construction step on the construction site must be clear. After this step is completed, the next step must be closely followed. Every process of decoration is interlocked. Every step must be done in a practical manner. Think about customers, where is reasonable and where is unreasonable. Understand the craftsmanship. Some craftsmen don’t understand it well, or they don’t know that they are missing. Some masters will often follow the drawings to save trouble during construction. When problems arise in the end, they will blame it on the designer, saying that the construction was done according to the drawings. In the end, it is still the designer’s business, so the construction process must be understood. Understand the materials, especially when communicating with customers. Some materials that customers ask about you don’t even know how to introduce to them. When the drawings were produced, some materials were not known, so shouldn’t they be used? Isn’t this a joke, so you must understand the materials, specifications, materials, uses, etc.

3. A good designer must constantly improve himself.

A good designer must constantly improve himself. Not only must he be proficient in relevant software, but he must also build his own self-confidence, improve his ability to communicate with others, and improve his own aesthetics. Think more, see more, learn more, be exposed to more new things, and summarize work experience.

In short, a designer is an all-round compound talent who needs to master a variety of abilities as much as possible, and requires your continuous efforts. The road to design is actually long and arduous. Not only do you need to have understanding and inspiration, but you also need to constantly hone yourself and stand the test. In this process of training, it is more about finding your own positioning and strengths. You must have strict requirements on yourself to continuously improve yourself.