Industrial designers need knowledge in the following areas:

• Design: Making and using plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
• Engineering and Technology: How to use computers and rules of engineering to design and produce goods and services.
• Mechanical: The design, use, and repair of machines and tools.
• Production and Processing: How products are made and distributed.
• Computers and Electronics: Computer hardware and software.
• Mathematics: The rules and uses of numbers.
• English Language: The meaning and use of the English language.
• Physics: The features and laws of matter and energy.
• Sales and Marketing: The methods for selling products and services.
• Clerical: General office work such as filling and storing information.