Making Experts Accessible to All

Question 1

Who are we?

Our Mission

Making Experts Accessible to All

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Xpert - is a social learning app to help you learn from the best. We are not your regular online course, but rather an experience that is beyond regular classes, lectures & assignments. We have India's top experts across each profession share their experiences, opinions, techniques & advice accumulated over the lifetime of their careers.

Question 2

What is Interior Design?

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Interior designing is the art of making indoor spaces lively, functional,beautiful with new ideas & designs by determining the reqirements of clients & the area & space, pattern,texture of a place you are designing for . It includes selecting the essential items like decorative items, such as furniture material, colors for different areas like living room, bedroom,etc. And also the lighting plays an important role in designing a space. It is planning & designing the interior of a house, commercial places, hospitals, hotels, resturants. Interior designing is the design & coordination of decorative elements, color schemes, furniture & fittings of the interior of a house, apartment, office or other structural space.

Question 3

What are the qualities of a Interior Designer?

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An interior designer should have good interpersonal skills that means he/she has an ability to commounicate effectievely with people & clients too as they need to spend most of the time in undestanding the clients. A designer should also have problem solving skills to overcome the obstacles while working on a particular project, he should be ready with solutions to every problem. A designer should focus on detail oriented work as it involves measuring & making drawings. Good project management skills and managing the clients requirements makes a good interior designer.:

Question 4

Who are the top Interior Designers?

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There are number of reputed designers in the country who are specialized at providng best & unique ideas & designs. Meet some of the finest interior designer:Sunita Kohli(K2INDIA),Shabnam Gupta(The Orange Lane & Peacock Life),Lipika Sud(Lipika Sud Interiors Pvt Ltd & Dimension Designers Pvt. Ltd),Payal Kapoor(Visions),Ajay Shah(Ajay Shah Design Studio),Anjum Jung(Morph Design),Tanya Gyani(Tanya Gyani Design),Aamir & Hameeda(Aamir & Hameeda Interior Desioners,Ambrish Arora(Lotus). Other than these top interior designers there are some excellent designers from bollywood industry too.Gauri Khan(Gauri Khan Designs),Sussanne Khan(The Charcoal Project),Twinkle Khanna(The White Window).

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For a house to be successful, the objects in it must communicate with one another, respond and balance one another.

-Andree Putman, Founder,Ecart International
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When a profession is born out of passion, designs take new dimensions!!

-Gauri Khan, Founder, Gauri Khan Interiors
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A room should never allow the eye to settle at one place. It should smile at you and create fantasy.

-Juan Montoya, Founder, Juan Montoya Design Corporation
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A designer has a duty to create timeless design. To be timeless you have to think really far into the future, not next year, not in two years but in 20 years minimum.

-Phillip Starck, Founder, Starck

Question 5

How can you start as a Interior Designer?

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For being an Interior Designer first you need to study for a degree in Interior Design. You should practice your work on daliy basis as practices makes man perfect. You should try to learn good design skills, including drawing and computer based design (CAD), you should always have a creative flair with unique and good imagination. You should always keep yourself updated regarding the latest trends in the industry and should have excellent communication and negotiation skills & aptitude for solving problems. While studying for a degree try to get an internship for yourself under a good designer, this will help you gaining practical exposure of work and how the industry works.

Question 6

What are the challenges of being a Interior Designer?

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The biggest challenge interior designers face is while fulfilling the requirements of the clients under the set budget and deadline. Being an interior designer you have to be seamlees and timeless too, that means your design should never go out of style. There is no limit of working hours you work until you are finally done with your project. Coordinating with the architects, builders & workers is itself a biggest challenge as you need to listen everyone and then you work on those ponits.Scheduling and time management needs to be done properly and managing costs still is the biggest challenge. Overcoming these challenges makes you a good interior designer.

Question 7

How can you learn
Interior Design at Xpert?

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Xpert enables you to learn from Interior Designers who are at the top of their work. Yes, it's not any of the academic bookish knowledge we deliver rather we believe in delivering learning from the knowledge & experience of the expert. We deliver learning via the real life challenge, failure and success stories of the geniuses who have battled their way up to the top. They share as to how challenging their first step was and how difficult it was them to overcome the challenges faced by them, what was their first failure, what happened when they failed at a particular point in their journey, who did they recruit initially and what qualities they look for a particular candidate, what was the first year of joy like, the times when they felt like giving up, the hope that made never made them loose, etc. It's their journey, techniques, opinions & ideologies that we share with aspiring Interior Designers to help them get closer to their dream.