According to the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) and the International Federation of Interior Architects and Interior Designers (IFI) member, Rita Carson, FASID and a group of her peers at the IFI conference in New York, the core values needed to be a good interior designer are:

• Ability to translate needs, ideas, and desires into appropriate interiors
• An ability to understand human behavior
• An understanding and concern for sustainability
• Ability to be ethically responsible
• Must have empathy for human life
• Must have passion for design
• Must be technically competent
• Ability to provide usability and functionalty within pschologically enhancing space
• A sharp focus of needs of people
• An ability to know how to “do no harm”
• Must have the ability to communicate both verbally and visually
• Must have aesthetic understanding
• Must have respect for human life

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