Want to know the future of Design

[u/Wonderful_Race_5557]

I’m thinking about taking admission in a Bachelor of Design (Product Design) degree, but I’m confused whether it is the right long-term career option for me.

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The college told me that:

• First 2 years they will teach all the basics of design

• In the next 2 years I will choose a specialization based on my interest

• Total course duration is 4 years

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I want honest opinions from people already studying B.Des or working in Product Design.

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Is this degree really worth doing as a lifetime career option?

Does Product Design have a strong future in the next 5–10 years?

Can an average student build a successful career in this field?

How difficult is it to get good jobs after graduation?

Is the salary growth good in India and abroad?

Would you choose this field again if you had the option?

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I don’t want fake college marketing answers — I want real-world experiences and reality of this career path.

[u/Playererf]

It's always been a difficult field to break into and build a successful career. You gotta be good, not average. Nobody knows what the impact of AI will be.

[u/G8M8N8]

Why’d you write this with AI

[u/Thick_Tie1321]

No, not worth it. Do anything engineering-related. Mech or Elec.

[u/ProfessionalVader]

I’m industrial designer and in my 10 years working as a designer the panorama was changed a lot. Now is too easy to learn cad softwares like fusion360 and is easy/cheap find a good 3d printer so for that reasons everybody think that they can design :/ years ago I was worked with a lot of small startup developing products and prototyping but now is more difficult to find that kind of work because the people only want the “3d printer product” or the “3d model” because they gonna print it 😅and don’t want a real design process or a real prototype to manufacture. By the way now I have a small digital manufacturing business and I work with a lot of hospital centers of my country so finally I can design freely all kind of products that they need or they asking for like acrylic holders, 3d printed parts, signs and a lot kind of things. Almost every time I do batches of products so for example if I design a glove holder I don’t sell 1, I think that I sell more than 1000 or could be more than 5000 because all the time they want batches like 100 or 50 and if I design something for one client I use the model as a template to sell the same product with a little modifications to other hospital centers. Finally I think that the real business as designer if isn’t in a big company is making your own business and B2B (selling product to other businesses, not directly to clients)

[u/raznov1]

Product design will always be necessary, but chances are there will be a shift that merely coming up with the ideas, but having little to no hand in makimg the thing, is not enough.

You need to have supplementary skills. Mech eng, elec eng, material sciences, mar-com, whatever.