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The Professional Challenges of Industrial Designer in Industry 4.0

Published: November 29, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2512.00279v1

By: Meng Li, Yu Zhang, Leshan Li

BigTech Affiliations: Weibo

Potential Business Impact:

Helps designers build smarter factories of the future.

Business Areas:
Human Computer Interaction Design, Science and Engineering

The Industry 4.0 refers to a industrial ecology which will merge the information system, physical system and service system into an integrate platform. Since now the industrial designers either conceive the physical part of products, or design the User Interfaces of computer systems, the new industrial ecology will give them a chance to redefine their roles in R&D work-flow. In this paper we discussed the required qualities of industrial designer in the new era, according to an investigation among Chinese enterprises. Additionally, how to promote these qualities though educational program.

Country of Origin
🇨🇳 China

Page Count
11 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Human-Computer Interaction