A Challenging Relationship Interior designers need to become advocates for the end-users of the spaces they create. The design profession has undergone great transition since its early years and interior design of the 21st century is multifaceted and multidimensional. Today's interior designer is an educated and experienced individual who deals with a complex profession.
Designers now impact discreetly or indiscreetly on all phases of people's lives.
Interior design professionals work with spaces that have great potential to affect the safety, health and well-being of diverse groups of people. In today's market, a widening gap often places the designer between a client who finances the development or manages the marketing of interior spaces and the people who use them. An example can be found in the design of health care facilities. Preservation of human dignity amid a sterile technological environment requires that there also be a humanizing approach to the design of health care habitats. A new dimension of responsibility for the professional interior designer becomes evident, that of advocacy.