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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Technology has changed the game, designer.
Just like with realtors, it’s upending your industry.

Anyone worth their salt can subscribe to AD and similar, go on Instagram, go to trade shows. No one should pay you above retail for a good that you received a trade discount for - that is just stupid.[/quote]

You're talking about decorating, and I agree.

AD and Insta is not design. [/quote]

It is when most “designers” in DC which DOES NOT license don’t even know that much and then upcharge. You can see a beautiful design you like and it will tell you the source. That knowledge used to be why people hired designers. Now designers need to work harder and pass on their discounts to stay in the game.[/quote]

What do you mean DC does not license?

DC has the strictest licensure laws in the nation for interior designers because it has a title act and a practice act. 
DC requires that designers AND decorators have their NCIDQ and register with DC. Do they always enforce? No. But you are really misinformed.

Licensure is through NCIDQ certification - you pass the exams and then you register with your jurisdiction(s).

See here: https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/titles/47/chapters/28/subchapters/I-B/parts/G

And here: https://www.cidq.org/regulated-jurisdictions[/quote]

WaPo

“Opponents say licensing is little more than government-sponsored window dressing for interior decorators to elevate their status to help them compete with architects, who can hang out their shingles only after completing five or six years of formal training, a three-year apprenticeship and a four-day examination.
The D.C. designer law sets a qualifying examination -- but no educational requirements -- for anyone doing business as an "interior designer." People who call themselves "interior decorators" aren't covered, though that phrase is out of favor with designers who deride it as applying only to "housewives in floppy hats."”[/quote]

This is riddled with inaccuracies. You should go read the NCIDQ website if you care so much. The exam is a series of three exams with low pass rates. A four year degree is required to sit for them. And you are citing arguments by opponents - that's not fact...that's a journalist re-telling someone's story, which aims to deregulate a profession, which has aims geared away from consumer protection.

Are you a design professional? Or just a couch-surfer trying to play expert?[/quote]

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