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1.01 Interior vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Aesthetics | Pleasing in appearance without personal bias. |
| Interior design | The creation of interior environments that support the function, aesthetics, and cultures of those who inhabit, live, and thrive in interior spaces |
| Interior Designer | A multi-faceted professional who uses creative and technical solutions applied within a structure to achieve a built interior environment. |
| Residential Interior design | Involves the planning and design of private dwellings to reflect the client’s tastes, preferences, and functional needs. |
| Commercial interior design | Involves the planning and design of primarily public spaces. Includes places where you eat, work, play, recover health and heal from medical conditions, exercise, meditate, or enjoy life. |
| Resume | A brief summary of a person’s education, skills, work experience, activities, and interests |
| Internship | An educational work experience for credit that allows the student to investigate different areas of the interior design field, learn the culture of various firms, and understand how academic preparation corresponds to the practice of design |
| Job Shadowing | Spending time with a person at work and learning by watching as he or she performs the functions of the job |
| Service Learning | A method of learning that combines classroom instruction with meaningful community service. |
| Apprentice | A person who works for another to learn trade |
| Work Samples/Artifacts | Photographs, floor-plan drawings, free-hand sketches, or conceptual models of work that you have done. Will be used in a portfolio to showcase your work to future clients. |
| Digital Copy Portfolio | A digital copy of a collection of work samples of a person’s best work, often used when applying for a job to show a person’s abilities and accomplishments |
| Traditional Portfolio | A paper copy of a collection of work samples of a person’s best work, often used when applying for a job to show a person’s abilities and accomplishments. |
| Code of ethics | Guiding principles of conduct and character that are establishes by and within professional organizations. A combination of best practices in business with moral principles to guide the interior design professional. |
| Interior Design Process | A method that interior designers use for organizing their work, guiding their actions, and finalizing their decisions when working with team members and clients. Although the phases of the process are linear, the designer will visit them multiple times |
| Pre-design | Takes place before the interior design process begins. Designer interviews the client and asks questions to understand client’s needs. If the designer’s skills match and the client agrees a contract is signed so the interior design process can begin. |
| Programming | The designer clearly identifies the client’s design problem, current situation, and future needs. Involves fact-finding, interviews, on-site analysis of the project. By the end the designer should fully understand the needs of the project and client. |
| Client program | outlines the client project-functions, specific requirements in each space, issues, and current status. Becomes a checklist that helps the designer understand the client’s needs, and ensures inclusion of every requirement in the final design solution. |
| Schematic design | This is the creative part of the interior design process. The designer starts coming up with ideas and possible design solutions based on what the client needs. They sketch out quick drawings to help picture the layout and how the space might look. |
| Design development | This phase is all about refining and improving the design ideas that were agreed on earlier. The designer and client work closely to make everything more detailed and finalized. |
| Contract Documents | In this phase, the designer prepares official drawings and documents that the contractor will use to build and install everything. These documents are legal instructions that must be followed. |
| Contract Administration | Phase 5 of the interior design process. The design comes to life. Designer schedules and monitors construction work and costs. |
| Move-in and post occupancy | Phase 6 of the interior design process. Designers sets a move-in date and schedules furniture and equipment delivery. Designer needs to assess the client’s satisfaction. |