Power and Money, a nasty combination for “outsiders”

FORWARDING from my friend Janet R.:

ASID and IIDA are using their members money to get a title Registered Interior Designer and have only the NCIDQ exam. This is a Practice Act (under a new joint licensing board with the architects). Yeah, pretty laughable since I have friends who are architects but they don’t want me on their board!

Do interior designers NEED a Practice Act? or should I ask: do consumers NEED to PAY MORE for interior design services? The answer to both is NO.

Interior designers can already become Certified by CCIDC and have their choice of exams (including the NCIDQ). I think in a year or so, there will be only one exam and that will be on California Codes.

This is a good thing as students will be able to take the codes exam right out of school (NCIDQ does not allow for that) and it will open more designers to becoming Certified. IF you are a designer with EXPERIENCE ONLY, NCIDQ doesn’t want you. Jane, Diane and Walter, I hope you are reading this.

Don’t fall for the grandfather lie. You won’t be automatically registered without a whole lot of trouble and alot of expense, and even then you may not qualify. Just because you are allied or assoc. members of ASID or IIDA, doesn’t mean a thing.

ASID who is pushing this so hard has not thought this through, at all, it makes me wonder who is in charge. They are making their members angry and it is so obvious they just don’t want “outsiders” to practice interior design (sorry, but thats what I think, all NKBA members, IDS, independents,… ASID is trying to shut you out or at least keep you down while they try to elevate themselves at all cost).