From textile designer to textile product developer
14 of the 24 essential skills of a textile product developer are already essential for a textile designer — about 58% of the job, before you learn anything new. It is the closest move from textile designer in the whole taxonomy.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 14
- skills carry over
- 10
- would be new
- 58%
- of the target job covered
- 24
- essential skills of a textile product developer
What a textile product developer does
Textile product developers innovate and perform product design of apparel textiles, home textiles, and technical textiles (e.g. agriculture, safety, construction, medicine, mobile tech, environmental protection, sports, etc.). They apply scientific and technical principles to develop innovative textile products.
What carries over
14 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- decorate textile articles
- design warp knit fabrics
- design weft knitted fabrics
- design woven fabrics
- distinguish accessories
- distinguish fabrics
- draw sketches to develop textile articles
- draw sketches to develop textile articles using softwares
- measure yarn count
- portfolio management in textile manufacturing
- properties of textile materials
- textile marketing techniques
- textile printing technology
- use textile technique for hand-made products
What would be new
10 skillsEssential for a textile product developer and not for a textile designer. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- braiding technology
- challenging issues in the textile industry
- conduct textile testing operations
- develop specifications of technical textiles
- health and safety in the textile industry
- maintain work standards
- nonwoven machine technology
- research and development in textiles
- textile technologies
- use textile finishing machine technologies
← textile designertextile product developer →The other way round
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How far are you from being a textile product developer?
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