Abstract This paper examines the change in the forms of employment of industrial designers between 1984 and 2018 in Turkey. The empirical data come from the graduates of the four oldest industrial design departments in the country. Utilizing multiple sources, we collected longitudinal data on forms of employment and duration of jobs for a total of 1205 individuals. Drawing on this data, we present a descriptive analysis of the changing job patterns in in-house employment, self-employment, freelance work, academic jobs and part-time teaching jobs. Our findings show that throughout the three and a half decades (1) in-house employment remains the main form of employment, in which UX-focused jobs emerge as a recent and consistently increasing subcategory, (2) the percentage of self-employed job types dropped significantly, and this lacuna was filled by freelance jobs, and (3) there is a considerable increase in women’s participation in industrial design jobs, particularly in in-house positions.

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工业设计师工作的变化：以土耳其为例，1984-2018年

摘要本文探讨了1984年至2018年土耳其工业设计师的就业形式的变化。经验数据来自该国四个历史最悠久的工业设计系的毕业生。利用多种来源，我们收集了有关1205个人的就业形式和工作时间的纵向数据。利用这些数据，我们对内部就业，自营职业，自由职业，学术工作和兼职教学工作中不断变化的工作模式进行了描述性分析。我们的研究结果表明，在过去的三个半五年中（1）内部就业仍然是主要的就业形式，其中，以用户体验为中心的工作是最近且持续增长的子类别，（2）自雇工作的百分比类型大幅下降