Defining Interior Design
Involves the planning and design of private dwellings to reflect the client’s tastes, preferences, and functional needs.
What is Residential Interior Design?
A brief summary of a person’s education, skills, work experience, activities, and interests.
What is a Resume?
A formal, written plan put forward for consideration.
What is a Proposal?
The Designer identifies the clients design problem, current situation, and future needs. Involves fact-finding, client interviews, on-site analysis of the project and creation of the client program. By the end the designer should fully understand the needs of the project and the client should verify accuracy before the designer proceeds to the next phase.
What is Programming?
Objects that add beauty, style, and character to the space.
What is accessories?
A multi-faceted professional who uses creative and technical solutions applied within a structure to achieve a built interior environment.
What is a Interior Designer?
An educational work experience for credit that allows the student to investigate different areas of the interior design field, learn the culture of various firms, and understand how academic preparation corresponds to the practice of design.
What is a Internship?
A first or preliminary model from which other forms are developed.
What is a Prototype?
A brainstorming or “what-if” phase that is creative and innovative. The designer explores and generates multiple ideas and multiple-design solutions based on the client program. Designer uses schematics- quick drawings to help envision floor plants, spaces, and more.
What is Schematic Design?
Regulations adopted by a community to govern the construction of buildings; ensures structural integrity and safe evacuation in the event of fire or any other event which might put the users of the space or public at risk. Laws created by the federal, state, and local governments.
What is Building codes?
Pleasing in appearance without personal bias.
What is Aesthetics?
Spending time with a person at work and learning by watching as he or she performs the functions of the job.
What is Job Shadowing?
The combination of ideas to form a theory or solution.
What is a Synthesis?
The refinement of designs and decisions the designer and client made. Phase of critical analysis, problem solving, and creativity. Phase includes floor plan revisions, evaluation of systems details, refinement of material and furnishings, development of interior architectural detailing, refinement of budget, and client sign-offs.
What is Design Development?
A form of sustainability that involves the redesign and repurposing of an existing building for a new function and a new client.
What is Adaptive Reuse?
Involves the planning and design of primarily public spaces. Includes places where you eat, work, play, recover health and heal from medical conditions, exercise, meditate, or enjoy life.
What is Commercial Interior Design?
A person who works for another to learn a trade.
Methodology used by designers to solve complex problems, and find desirable solutions for clients.
What is Design Thinking?
Involves preparing formal documents for the construction and installation of design. These documents are the legally binding document. Continue with refinement of budget, development of working drawings, specification book, bidding with contractor, and client approvals.
What is Contract Documents?
A key responsibility and legal liability of the interior design profession to produce designs that do not adversely impact the public; also health, safety and welfare when referring to legislation.
What is Health, Safety and Well-being (HSW)?
The creation of interior environments that support the function, aesthetics, and cultures of those who inhabit, live, and thrive in interior spaces.
What is Interior Design?
A method of learning that combines classroom instruction with meaningful community service.
What is service learning?
To introduce something new and distinctive from an established idea.
What is Innovate?
The design comes to life. Designer schedules and monitors construction work and costs.
What is Contract Administration?
refers to a wide assortment of products that includes systems furniture, loose furniture, artwork, accessories, signage, planters, and window coverings.
What is FF&E (Furniture, Fixtures, and Equipment)?