Description
Transform footwear design ideas and concepts into prototypes and, finally, a collection. Analyse and check the designs from various angles like functionality, aesthetics, comfort, performance and manufacturability. Manage the development process of all the footwear prototypes in order to meet the customer’s needs and to properly balance quality with production costs.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 3 occupations
- Optional in 1 occupations
- Total: 4 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 2 (Professionals)
Essential for
- Footwear designerFootwear designers perform fashion trends analysis, forecasting, and market research, create footwear concepts, and build collection lines by operating mood or concept boards, colo…
- Footwear product developerFootwear product developers provide interface between design and production. They engineer the footwear prototypes previously created by designers. They select, design or re-design…
- Footwear product development managerFootwear product development managers coordinate the footwear design and the product and collection development process in order to comply with design specifications, deadlines, st…
Optional for
- Footwear patternmakerFootwear patternmakers design and cut patterns for all kinds of footwear using a variety of hand and simple machine tools. They check various nesting variants and perform material …
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Last updated on February 18, 2026