Snapshot before the quality program (relevance gates, tiered mapping, QA linter). v1 is the immutable before/after reference; evidence crawl was at ~175/3039 occupations when tagged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PDKeXvpT6tENSvyQGLV1Uq
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name: footwear-designer
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description: "Occupational skill for the role 'footwear designer' (also: footwear technologist, footwear designer and developer, shoe stylist, men's footwear designer, women's footwear designer, footwear designer & developer). Use when the user asks for typical footwear designer work such as: typical footwear designer responsibilities"
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# Footwear Designer
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Footwear designers perform fashion trends analysis, forecasting and market research, create footwear concepts and build collection lines by operating mood or concept boards, colour palettes, materials, drawings and sketches etc. They conduct the sampling process, make footwear prototypes and samples for presentations aimed to promoting the footwear concepts and collections. They identify the range of materials and components, define the design specifications by collaborating with the technical team and review the footwear samples, prototypes, and collections.
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## Core workflow
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## How to use this skill
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- Read [references/profile.md](references/profile.md) for the occupation profile and scope.
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- Consult [references/tasks.md](references/tasks.md) for the full task and activity inventory.
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- Check [references/skills.md](references/skills.md) for essential vs. optional competences.
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- Check [references/tools.md](references/tools.md) for the software commonly used in this role.
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- See [references/ai-skills.md](references/ai-skills.md) — matched external AI agent skills (per-source attribution).
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## Key competences (essential)
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- analyse types of footwear
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- apply fashion trends to footwear and leather goods
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- communicate commercial and technical issues in foreign languages
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- create mood boards
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- create patterns for footwear
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- create technical sketches for footwear
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- develop footwear and leather goods marketing plans
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- develop footwear collection
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- ergonomics in footwear and leather goods design
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- footwear and leather goods marketing planning
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- footwear components
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- footwear creation process
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- footwear manufacturing technology
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- footwear materials
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- footwear quality
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## Hot technologies
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- Adobe Acrobat
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- Adobe Creative Cloud software
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- Adobe Illustrator
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- Adobe InDesign
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- Adobe Photoshop
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- Autodesk Revit
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- JavaScript
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- Microsoft Excel
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- Microsoft Office software
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- Microsoft Outlook
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*Sources: ESCO v1.2.1 (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/06f89f2c-c6e9-40c5-a4a5-0e34d5fbc184), O*NET 30.3 (27-1022.00, manual nearest match). See manifest.json for licensing/attribution.*
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