Interior designers are design professionals, qualified by experience, education and examination to provide interior design services. Interior designers are not decorators. It is impossible to identify the exact number of people who refer to themselves as interior designers since not all U.S. jurisdictions regulate interior design. Interior designers are not architects-just as architects are not engineers. Education, experience and examination standards for interior designers cannot be compared to those of architects, since interior designers do not study or practice architecture.
Similar organizations exist in interior design and architecture.
The standards for the interior design profession cannot be compared to the standards for the architectural profession, since interior designers do not practice architecture. Interior designers are the only design professionals who are educated, experienced and examined solely in the area of interior design. Many questions on both Section I and II incorporate drawings, pictures, symbols, and textual formats typical in the interior design profession, requiring candidates to recall, apply, and analyze information. Will require candidates to produce a design solution. Candidates will receive a program based on a multi-functional facility.