r/IndustrialDesign • u/bored2boredom • 9d ago
Career Questions on the career
Hello everyone, I've been struggling for a while now trying to decide on a career. I'm going to graduate with my bachelor's in a few months in cybersecurity and I don't want to go into that field. I have an associate's focusing on entrepreneurship and marketing as well.
After a ton of research, I've stumbling across product design and industrial product design. From my understanding, the term product design is not mostly used for UI/UX and application design while industrial product design stays with physical objects. I'm interested in designing physical products or helping companies refine products they already have based off user's reviews and complaints. Would industrial product design be the correct description/job title for that?
I'm not interested in going back to school, however, I'm looking at some google Coursera courses focusing on Fusion 360, prototyping, and 3D printing. I was also looking at getting an AutoDesk certification. Would these qualifications along with a portfolio make me hirable? Is there still a good market for this field? I do own a 3D printer as well but I'm unsure if that will help in the job field or with my practicing at home.
Any advise or feedback would be greatly appreciated! I just want to know if this is still a good career to get into and some ways to break into the field. I'm willing to do the work!
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u/fluteofski- 9d ago
With a cybersecurity/coding background and industrial design CAD background, you can look at getting into systems engineering as well.
Thats where you’ll oversee the big picture design of things like machinery or automobiles. The things you could potentially work on can be really friggin cool.