Abstract

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The Industrial design in Nigeria is a potential and an agent for expanding various roles of industrial sectors in order to empower the youth that is skillful in Industrial Designs. This paper focuses on the industry (relatively low capital intensively low investment cost, that are able to use low skilled labour as a means that the industry is relatively footloose as well as able to adjust and to manage the market condition quickly as possible. It explains the manufacturing industries as the process of creating designs for mass production purposes in the industries. It further explains the uses of computer-aided design softwares for designing products as well as expressing design industries as agent of National development. It expresses in details the social aspect of Industrial design as well as the challenges facing industrial design in Nigeria which include Infrastructures and corruptions among others. Based on the above reasons, the paper focuses on expanding the roles of industrial design and likewise the attempts to begin the assessment of the impact of long-term policies on the design Industries as sectors that can employ on a largely supply of unskillful workers from formal and informal labour forces and proffers recommendations and conclusion.

Keywords: Industrial Design, Agents, Empowerment, National Development