Interior designer — skills, knowledge and links

How it connects#

O*NET also lists (no page here yet): Commercial and Industrial Designers · Craft Artists · Landscape Architects · Fashion Designers · Merchandise Displayers and Window Trimmers · Set and Exhibit Designers · Architectural and Civil Drafters · Art Directors

In the official classification#

In Europe, internationally and in Singapore

What O*NET rates highest#

From O*NET 27-1025.00 (Interior Designers). Ordered by O*NET's importance rating; the words are O*NET's own scale anchors.

Each task in O*NET's terms#

O*NET describes work as detailed activities. Each of this page's 6 tasks is matched only against the activities O*NET lists for this occupation, with a stated fit; 6 match at least one. The alignment and its fit are this site's judgement, made task by task by its AI agent (Claude) on 2026-09-26; O*NET does not align tasks like ours. The activity names are O*NET's, the translations ours.

• Understanding the client and the brief
  Confer with clients to determine needs.the closest O*NET has, not the same · Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates · O*NET 31.0The same activity in: Graphic designer · Photographer
• Developing and presenting concepts
  Develop artistic or design concepts for decoration, exhibition, or commercial purposes.the closest O*NET has, not the same · Thinking Creatively · O*NET 31.0The same activity in: Illustrator
  Present work to clients for approval.covers part of this task · Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others · O*NET 31.0The same activity in: Illustrator · Project manager
• Space planning and drawings
  Plan facility layouts or designs.the closest O*NET has, not the same · Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment · O*NET 31.0
  Draw detailed or technical illustrations.covers part of this task · Thinking Creatively · O*NET 31.0The same activity in: Illustrator
• Specifying materials and sourcing
  Select materials or props.the closest O*NET has, not the same · Making Decisions and Solving Problems · O*NET 31.0
  Estimate costs for projects or productions.covers part of this task · Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information · O*NET 31.0
• Coordinating contractors on site
  Coordinate construction or installation activities.the closest O*NET has, not the same · Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates · O*NET 31.0
  Inspect facilities or sites to determine if they meet specifications or standards.covers part of this task · Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials · O*NET 31.0The same activity in: Architect
• Codes, safety and signing the drawings
  Review details of technical drawings or specifications.covers part of this task · Getting Information · O*NET 31.0

Tasks O*NET proposes to add#

O*NET's analysts propose new or reworded task statements for future data collection, drawing on what surveyed workers write in, research into new technologies and professional associations. They are candidates, not yet part of the rated task list, and they say nothing about whether automation is involved. This site does not fold them into its own task judgements.

• Review contractor bids to subcontract fabrication, installation, and arrangement of carpeting, fixtures, accessories, draperies, paint and wall coverings, art work, furniture, and related items.Revised wording of an existing task · 2024-08 · from occupational experts · O*NET 31.0

Rules that bind this work#

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Our task judgements#

Sources and rules#

• Each block says where it comes from: this site's own judgements, O*NET, the U.S. Department of Education's CIP–SOC crosswalk, the European ESCO classification and its official crosswalk to O*NET, the ILO's ISCO-08, Singapore's SSOC 2024, or something computed mechanically from those. Nothing on this page is a rating we made up.
• O*NET's importance ratings are used only to order and shorten the lists. They are never combined with this site's impact index or evidence counts.
• The fit between our page and an O*NET occupation is our judgement and is stated per code: same job, broader, part of it, or only the closest there is.
• The ESCO and ISCO-08 fits are derived mechanically from the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk; where we override it, we say why in our data (for example, the crosswalk pairs radiologists with radiographers, which is a different job). The SSOC 2024 fit is our reading of the Singapore Department of Statistics' own titles and definitions. Official names are shown as their publishers write them; we do not translate them.
• Each task is matched only against the detailed work activities O*NET lists for the codes this page maps to. Where nothing fits, the page says why instead of forcing a match: work O*NET does not describe yet (used only for tasks we judge to be emerging), or nothing in O*NET's list for this occupation. An alignment never changes a task's direction, its basis or the impact index.
• Rules are read only from this site's verified records. A rule's official name must appear word for word in a record that reads it, so no name is made up; a policy mandate is read only as 'must', 'must not' or 'funds', because 'should' and 'in principle' are not a mandate. Reading a rule never changes a task's direction, its basis or the impact index.
• How these pieces fit together — objects, links and the actions that change them — is drawn as one diagram: The VOLO ontology
• ESCO (European Commission), occupation records from the ESCO API; CC BY 4.0. ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, ESCO Secretariat with the U.S. Department of Labor/ETA, version 1 (Sep 2022), O*NET-SOC 2019 ↔ ESCO v1.1.0; CC BY 4.0. Singapore Department of Statistics, Singapore Standard Occupational Classification 2024 and its correspondence with ISCO-08.
• O*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026 release, U.S. Department of Labor/Employment and Training Administration, CC BY 4.0. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. The translations of O*NET descriptors on this page are ours, not O*NET's.