Can I be a designer if I don’t have a big brain?
First of all, you need to clarify what kind of designer you want to be.
If you don’t understand or comment on others, as far as interior design is concerned, imagination is by no means a basic requirement for a designer, but a reflection of the talents and abilities of some outstanding designers. I have seen statistics before. There are about 70 million designers in various industries across the country, and more than 60% of them are interior designers. Why is this ratio so high? It’s because the entry threshold for this industry is low and the demand for professional skills is not high. To put it bluntly, some cats and dogs who have been working in a decoration company for half a year dare to go out and say that they are designers. But looking back at real design capabilities? In the field of home decoration, 90% of designers have no original designs of their own. The reason is very simple. In ordinary second- and third-tier cities, even the developers’ properties rarely have any original properties. They all buy drawings and renovate them, and the apartment types are similar.
Interior design requires two aspects of design, space layout and functional use. As for the combination of soft furnishings and the use of materials, there are only a few home decoration materials that have become popular, with nearly thousands of them. People can combine everything by permutation and combination, and at the same time, it must be within the economic and aesthetic affordability of the general public. What kind of tricks can be created?
As for the most critical space layout and functional use, experience and thinking are far more important than imagination, especially in the early stage when you are not exposed to complex projects such as large flats and villas. , the design ideas for small and medium-sized apartments have rules to follow, such as circulation, ergonomics, light, Feng Shui, etc. There are many online tutorials, you can watch and learn by yourself. To be honest, with such a small area, there is no room for you to use your imagination. And now that the Internet is developed, customers receive no less new things than you do every day. Various platforms and advertisements will launch all kinds of strange products. Only you can't think of it, but they can't do it. If you want to compare your imagination in this regard, a How does human intelligence compare to the intelligence of all developers in the entire market?
As for becoming bigger and stronger in the later stage, it is also based on your ability to solidify the basic skills in the early stage. To learn to run, you must first learn to walk. When the most basic space layout will not make mistakes, ergonomics can be applied at your fingertips, and then make something new, otherwise your imagination will be wild and you will make an impractical design. In interior design, practicality and comfort are always the first elements. No matter how beautiful your design is, if the customer is uncomfortable living in it, he will not miss you.
To be honest, when most ordinary designers get projects, they ask for help from external resources. If you have time to look through the classic cases of various websites, you will find that they are all the same. It’s rare to see new things that are bright, let alone imaginative. Most people don't dare to use new materials casually, for fear of problems and low customer acceptance. How much fun can you have by making patterns on the original materials? If you play with ordinary materials, that is also a skill.
As for the imagination you mentioned, you can have this, but it is not necessary. If not, you can have a place in the related fields by studying hard and then constantly summarizing and learning. If so, that would be the icing on the cake, allowing you to shine with your own unique light in this vast sea of people. But never deny yourself just because you have no idea. Don't give up just because of what others say before you've tried it. Most people grow up along the way.
Wish you success