

Interior designers also do more specific tasks, including design services like sketching design plans and putting together mood boards while space planning, creating budgets/timelines, and sourcing materials.

Mainly, interior designers are responsible for working alongside customers and meeting their everyday needs, following health and safety rules, meeting accessibility standards, understanding how their work fits into a broader community, and planning and completing doable design projects under specific timelines. Interior designers have many responsibilities tied to potential spaces and their respective clients. What are the responsibilities of an interior designer? What does an interior designer do? “An interior designer creates art that humans literally live, work, and play within,” he says. Nguyen’s SCAD colleague Tony Purvis would add that interior designers intentionally create spaces that we interact with on a daily basis, whether we realize it or not.

Chi-Thien (C.T.) Nguyen, the chair of Interior Design and Preservation Design at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), in Savannah, Georgia, says that an interior designer is a creative problem solver, social anthropologist, and experiential choreographer all in one.
