Description
The principles used in the design of various styles of footwear and leather goods for the correct anatomic and ergonomic proportions and measurements.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 7 occupations
- Optional in 4 occupations
- Total: 11 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…
- Orthopaedic footwear technicianOrthopaedic footwear technicians design footwear and make patterns, using manufacturing technology. They compensate and accommodate foot and ankle fitting problems, design and manu…
- Footwear production machine operatorFootwear production machine operators tend specific machines in the industrial production of footwear. They operate machinery for lasting, cutting, closing, and finishing footwear …
- Leather goods machine operatorLeather goods machine operators tend specific machines in the industrial production of leather goods products. They operate machinery for cutting, closing, and finishing luggage, h…
- Leather goods designerLeather goods designers are in charge of the creative process of leather goods. They perform fashion trends analysis, accompany market researches and forecast needs, plan and devel…
- Leather goods product developerLeather goods product developers perform and interface between design and actual production. They analyse and study the designer's specifications and transform them into technical …
Optional for
- Leather goods CAD patternmakerLeather goods CAD patternmakers design, adjust and modify 2D patterns using CAD systems. They check laying variants using nesting modules of the CAD system. They estimate material …
- 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 …
- Leather goods product development managerLeather goods product development managers coordinate the leather goods design and product development process in order to comply with marketing specifications, deadlines, strategi…
- 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…
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Last updated on February 19, 2026