Who are interior designers?
Interior designers are design professionals, qualified by experience, education and examination to provide interior design services. 16,400 interior designers have met these qualifications and have earned an NCIDQ certificate. A definition of interior design is available from the NCIDQ office. Interior designers are not decorators. NCIDQ does not qualify decorators and jurisdictions do not regulate decorators. It is impossible to identify the exact number of people who refer to themselves as interior designers since not all U.S. jurisdictions regulate interior design. However, only those 16,400 individuals who are NCIDQ certificate holders can be identified as having met all requirements to competently practice interior design. Currently, there are 23 US jurisdictions with interior design regulations. Are there significant differences between the qualification for licensing architects and for licensing/registering/certifying interior designers? Yes. Interior designers are not architect
