Podcast
Marcy Sagel, founder of DesignerBank and principal of MSA Interiors, returns to the Design Curious podcast with host Rebecca Ward to talk about why Revit has become the skill commercial firms hire for, and how interior designers can build it without years of on-the-job training first.
Marcy explains why Revit for interior designers is a different discipline from Revit for architects, why MSA Interiors moved off CAD more than a decade ago to work in the same model as its architecture partners, and why she now tells recruiters that candidates simply have to learn it. She also shares where DesignerBank stands six months after launch: thirteen modules live, thirty planned in the first year, and conversations underway with accredited university programs.
Topics covered:
• Why Revit for interior designers is a different discipline from Revit for architects
• Moving a commercial firm off CAD more than a decade ago to work in the same model as its architecture partners
• The three-level Revit track: beginner, intermediate, and advanced, each with a workbook, quiz, and certificate
• Rendering in Enscape, and why Marcy calls the rendering modules her favorite part of the curriculum
• Self-paced 30-minute modules you can repeat until the skill actually sticks
• How Revit and rendering skills open commercial roles without years of apprenticing first
• Why no one, across 30 years of interviews, has ever rated themselves a 10 in Revit
• Filling a curriculum gap: executive education and conversations with accredited interior design and interior architecture programs
• What is coming next, including family-building courses and a Revit family library built over 12 years
• Amenity trends in multifamily: maker spaces, Zoom rooms, podcast studios, and bike repair vending
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