Design Process
What is the design process?
Designers should keep a __-__% cushion for unexpected expenses.
What is 10-15% cushion for?
Skills that affect how you work with others and handle situations.
What are soft skills?
The typical universal standard scale for CD set drawings.
What is 1/4"=1'?
Color, Texture, Pattern, Space, Shape, Form, Line
What are the Elements of Design?
The step where designers would determine the clients wants, needs, budget, and limitations.
What is the "identify the problem" step?
A designer has a limited budget and wants to spend more money on a high-quality sofa while saving on accessories.
What is an example of "splurge and save"?
Skills that you learn through training and practice.
What are hard skills?
Floor Plans, elevations, flooring plans, foundation details, electrical and plumbing layouts, and utility lines.
What are things that are included in a CD Set?
Scale, Proportion, Harmony, Rhythm, Emphasis, Contrast, Balance
What are the Principles of Design?
The step where the design plan is carried out, construction is completed, and decoration and final styling occur. Designers may also think about if the final design met the clients goals and solved the problem during this step.
Comprehensive documents that detail every product, material, and finish for a project ensuring clarity for clients, contractors, and the design team.
What are Schedules and Specifications?
A specific skill that allows an individual to be ready to adjust when clients change their mind, manage shifting budgets and timelines, and keep an open mind throughout projects.
What is Flexibility?
Provides identifying information about a drawing project.
What is a title block?
Traditional, Modern Farm House, Mid-Century Modern, Mediterranean, Asian Zen, Industrial, and Hollywood Glam
What are examples of interior design styles?
The step where a designer may look at several examples of how other designers solved similar problems.
Lists all movable items like furniture, fixtures (lighting), and appliances or equipment.
What is an FF&E (Furniture, Fixtures, and Equipment) Schedule?
A specific skill that allows an individual to understand client's emotions, stress, and excitement.
What is empathy?
Provides organized technical information needed to communicate the design for construction and implementation.
What is a Construction Document Set?
A scaled diagram of a room from above.
What is a floor plan?
A crucial part of the implement and evaluate step in which the designer acts as a liaison between clients and construction workers.
What is a site visit?
Details all finishes, including flooring, wall treatments, countertops, and paint sheen.
What is a Finish Schedule?
Unrealistic budgets, changing minds/preferences mid project, conflicting opinions, and supply delays or unavailable materials.
What are common client challenges?
They provide elevation drawings for each room, floor plans, ceiling plans, FF&E drawings and specs, finish schedules and legends (flooring plans), and possibly demo plans if needed.
What items do Interior Designers provide for a CD set?
Public, Private, Work, and Storage
What are the functional zones?