Knowledge management 07: Skills of a designer or architect in an architecture firm or design office

Artistic/ design skills	social skills	Scientific skills	Technical Skills
· Vivid imagination. · Ability to visualize/ illustrate design ideas · Highly developed sense of style and aesthetics. · Application of nuanced and subtle aesthetic criteria, instead of noticing only “black and white” options. · Knowledge of design trends. · Merging alternative and even contradictory ideas into new design ideas. · Identification of several positive and advantageous features of an idea, highlighting the developmental possibilities.	· Listening carefully to other designers and customers · Respecting clients’ vision and perspectives. · Understanding the ‘feelings’ of the client · Expressing criticism with explicitness and politeness. · Intriguing team’s thinking and imagination. · Using multiple forms of communication (digital drawing, sketches, detailed explanations, videos, interactive media, etc) · Has convincing and influential power over colleagues and clients. · Displaying confidence making colleagues and clients feel safe and ‘in good hands’. · Good understanding of organization, and internal politics · keen to share information, ideas and knowledge	· Good knowledge of architecture and design discipline · Ability to use the right information source. · Ability to stay updated and informed. ·  Use of previous experience and enrich knowledge with information sources. · Ability to prioritizes and balance many parameters. · A focus both on process and on the outcomes. · Autonomous working and initiative · Ability to look at the big picture as well as focusing on the details	· Good understanding of processes and policies · Extensive knowledge of drawing tools and technology (2d printers, 3d printers, software and hardware, etc) · Great understanding of markets and their needs · Can make fast decisions that rely on knowledge and experience · Consider context when making a decision