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designer is a person whose work uses the design process. This means that a designer could be everyone who will use drafts, sketches (or nowadays also conceptual models created inside virtual worlds like computer programs) to aid in the creation of a work, a product, an equipment of any scale. Classically, the main areas of design were only Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, who were understood as the major arts. With the arising complexity of today’s society, and due to the need of high speed mass production, were more time is always associated with more money costs, the production methods changed radically and with them the way design production is made. The classical areas are now subdivided in small specialized domains of design (Landscape Design, Urban Design, Exterior Design, Interior Design, Industrial Design, Furniture Design, Cloth Design, and many more) according to the equipment to be produced (designed). The main base artistic formation of a designer is normally the same no matter the area of specialization, only in a later stage of acknowledgment it will diverse to a specialized field. The methods of teaching or the program and theories followed vary according to schools. Today, a design team, no matter the scale of the equipment, is usually composed by a master design that will have the responsibility to take decisions about the way to the creative process should evolve, the head of the team, and a number of technical designers specialized in diverse areas according to the product pretended, the hands of the team. For more complex equipments, the team will also be composed of professionals from other scientific areas like engineers, advertising specialists, and much more. The relationships established between team members could vary according to the processes of production, the equipment in cause, or the theories followed during the idea development, but normally, they are not too strict, giving an opportunity to everyone in the team to take a part on the creation process, at least to express an idea.