An Industrial Designer
"[...] is the master of inductive reasoning. These are very powerful practical concepts that industrial design brings to the table. We see a lot of interest in the methodologies and tools that designers can contribute to business and society and feel sure that the scope and need for industrial designers is growing rather than shrinking.
Industrial design training stresses problem solving in three dimensions of often very complex issues involving new technologies, manufacturing processes and very broad target groups. Dealing with this level of complexity forces designers to learn the processes of design and to hold many options in their minds looking for the highest level of solution versus the logical thinker’s reductive processes of arriving at the common denominator.
The design process also stresses rapid prototyping and many iterations of ideas that ultimately define what the innovation process is all about. Messy experimentation. The more iterations that are made, the higher the potential quality of the solution. The more real world trial and error dealing with the parameters in 3-D versus manipulating mathematical models, the better the chances are that the solution will be optimized for the user." — Stephan Clambaneva
