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Project Designers are preparing the projects’ smooth implementation. International literature has made a considerable contribution towards project designers’ tasks and skills. Guertin (Guertin, 1996) suggests that it is necessary to put emphasis on the anthropometric design parameter in the workplace, in order to present different approaches in job design analysis, to apply all these concepts into an existent project evaluation, and to meet the company needs.
Moreover, Lofthouse (Lofthouse, 2004) provides empirical evidence to support that there is a specific and valuable role for core industrial designers working at the operational end of ecodesign. Her study led to the conclusion that industrial designers have a very similar role to play in ecodesign as they do in regular design. This means that core industrial designers are concerned with generating ideas and developing design concepts. Furthermore, they add to the scope of projects, while at the same time develοping concepts that are fit for purpose, pleasurable and easy to use. Finally, they design product concepts by using manufacturing and material knowledge.
Furthermore, Han et al. (Han et al., 2019), propose an effective, innovative partner selection method on the basis of collaboration network deconstruction optimization, using collaboration and knowledge networks. They have found that highly skilled employees are generally able to work effectively alone or collaborate with others.
Considering the relationship among designers and users Darses and Wollf (Darses & Wollf, 2006), propose that during a design process: i) the users’ needs were inferred by the designers on the basis of their own mental representations of the new device use and ii) the future device users are mostly viewed by the designers as one of the subsystems of the global device. Accordingly, meeting types diversification should be promoted by the project leader, so that designers extend their points of view to the operators.