Know-how and digital skills: The professions of the future

The labour market is constantly changing and the skills required of a designer today are diverse in their articulation.

Among the new orientations is a return to the practical aspects of training in arts and crafts, which is at the centre of demand especially for Fashion Design, and the search for 'talents of doing' for the manufacturing sector. From this point of view, the training offer in the region of various vocational training courses and courses and masters' degrees from private institutes provides valuable support.

On the other hand, the irruption of digital has forced an acceleration of technological changes, also in the world of sales and distribution, which requires professional figures capable, for example, of creating products and environments for phigital experiences, as in retail design. Interaction Design (UX, UI) is undoubtedly a skill that is in great demand in Piedmont by communication agencies and transportation, as is Strategic and Service Design (innovation design, systemic design, service design, social design), linked to the sustainable practices activated by large groups and the social innovation promoted in particular by foundations, associations and cooperatives.

And given the ever-increasing presence of businesses and tech companies operating in the digital transformation, there is also a demand for people capable of transferring the methodologies of design thinking and systemic design, aimed at the world of organisations and services.

Those listed are just some of the categories covered by the academic and school courses, to which one can add courses dedicated to Food Design and applied technologies, such as film and media engineering, to Sound Design.