Interior Designer's solution - to do list for Interior Designer

Interior designers design and control the construction or redevelopment of building interiors. This profession includes creating of drawings and specifications for interior construction. Interior designer's daily tasks are related to learning the client's requirements, space planning, designing furnishings, lighting, equipment, decoration, and coordinating efforts with technical specialists to ensure that all industry and technical regulations are met.
Owing to intensive workflow and tasks with strict timelines, interior designer should be highly organized person. Special task and time management software can help interior designer to keep tasks in order.
Let's take a sample of Interior Designer's typical to-do-list:

• Call Mr. Jackson to confirm colors used in furnishing of kitchen
• Send weekly report to Mr. Johnson in order to tell how decoration of his house is going  
• Call to the supplier and order wall-papers #12348 for bedroom of Mr. Phillips
• Visit apartment of Mrs. Harris (Main street, 231, ap. 3) to discuss interior's options  
• Visit apartment of Mr. Hall to take photos and measurements of the space
• Finish video presentation of house interior for Mr. Adams and present the estimate for approval

Task and Time planning solution for Interior Designer
Interior Designer should perform a lot of tasks that require short and long-term planning. The software for Interior Designer should provide capabilities for planning due dates of tasks (for one-time or rarely performed tasks, such as "Call Mr. Jackson to confirm colours used in furnishing of kitchen") and setting recurring tasks (for repeating tasks such as "Send weekly report to Mr. Johnson in order to tell how decoration of his house is going"). To facilitate task grouping and tracking, software for Interior Designer should allow flexible categorizing of tasks, so that editor can organize workflow according to personal style of work (for example categorize tasks by clients, like it is shown on screen-shot - in this case each category contains tasks dedicated to certain client). Moreover, it is important to range tasks by priority and set task reminders, so that Interior Designer can not miss tasks deadlines. The set of task statuses and grade of completeness in percents will be helpful for designer's work performance observation, like it is shown on screen-shot. Software for designer also should support making notes for tasks (for ex: "Visit apartment of Mrs. Harris to discuss interior's options" can be supplemented with additional information such as apartment address and visit hours). 

Document management within Interior Designer's workflow
Interior Designer works with a big number of different documents (graphical documents such as drafts, sketches, lay-outs, photos etc. or office documents such as mails, estimates etc.), so he/she should use software that allows management of documents. The software which can be used by Interior Designer should allow attachment of files to tasks, so with grouping, sorting and categorizing tasks Interior Designer can be provided with convenient access to files by one click on hyperlink. For example task "Finish presentation of house interior for Mr. Adams and present the estimate for approval" can be supplemented with link to folder that will contain Excel file with estimate and PowerPoint file with presentation.

Choosing the right software for Interior Designer
VIP Organizer software is a good solution for Interior Designer who wants to organize individual professional activity. It is personal easy-to-use tasks management software which allows Interior Designer to plan and categorize tasks, set timelines and priorities, manage notes and documents, set task reminders, create printable checklists and so on.
VIP Team To Do List will be helpful for Interior Designer who would like to manage designing team remotely by e-mail or send regular reports to clients. It is team organizing easy-to-use software which allows assigning tasks and controlling small project execution by e-mail.
VIP Task Manager is most powerful task management product which can be used for management of interior designing team. It is a task management groupware which allows multiple users access one database via LAN or Internet. This software provides users with planning, tracking and reporting tasks, access rights management, instant notifications, customizable workflow and task attributes. 

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