Not only are digital design platforms rapidly expanding, but they’re become more accessible to a wider market, too. Business Insider have rounded up 8 platforms that now provide full digital design capability, with many of these services being, crucially, free. This means that a wider range of interior designers have access to sophisticated design tools and that in turn will mean a greater spread of great house designs, accessible to people across the economic spectrum. This is already influencing designs for the better, with digital design principles helping to make an immediate impact on the quality and implementation of creative works.
A greater sense of adventure
Interior designs of the 00s onwards were encapsulated by simple, flexible designs. More emphasis was placed on having cross-market resale value and a design that can appeal to homeowners from a range of generations, current and future, than trying out adventurous things. This is a shame, as styles such as art deco are rightly highlighted by Forbes as being some of the most enduring and exciting ways to decorate a home. Digital interior design takes a huge element of risk out of the process by giving designers and homeowners the opportunity to see their work in the flesh. A noted interior decorator in Austin, TX advocates this use of digital technology to produce in-depth interior designs well ahead of them ever being installed in the home.
Greater flexibility
An important part of the interior design digital setup is the incoming development of 3D technology. Primarily explored at the UKs National Design Academy, 3D printing allows elements for spaces to be designed, whether as supporting parts or indeed as focal points. 3D printing doesn’t just encapsulate plastics, and today, a huge range of materials can be deployed by the printing machines, including metals. This is a huge amount of flexibility, and when paired with detailed digital models of a potential new interior and the advent of new, computer-driven design techniques, an entirely new way of designing interiors can be created.
AI-driven design
Computers and sophisticated algorithms are starting to make their impact in design, too. While a subjective matter, interior design does have some mathematical and time-honored strategies to rely on; think the golden ratio, the Fibonacci sequence, and so on. When put into the machine learning format, sophisticated computers can plan out rooms in a way that should, technically, be aesthetically pleasing. While experienced interior designers are essential to make sure these designs are in reality good, and to make finishing touches (and indeed to teach the computers with their designs), it could cut out a lot of the leg work of interior design and help to generate foundations for new, transformative designs.
Through smart tech, home design can be improved – just as many other fields have been. In interior design, this will give designers a solid digital framework on which to build more exciting designs. Home design can expect to see a revolution towards more interesting and unique homes as a result.
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