Design and Manufacturing Edition
The State of Design & Make report is a global, annual study for leaders who design and make places, objects, and experiences. It identifies the most pressing issues shaping today’s businesses and helps leaders make informed, strategic decisions about how to prioritize and invest in the future.
Unless otherwise noted, the data in this document is the D&M industry sample of 1,787 business leaders and experts—a subset of Autodesk’s 2024 State of Design & Make report—who are in the product design and manufacturing industries.
The overall sample includes 5,368 industry leaders, futurists, and experts from the following industries: architecture, engineering, construction, and operations (AECO); product design and manufacturing (D&M); and media and entertainment (M&E). Survey data in the main report has been broken down by global region: Asia(stx)Pacific (APAC), which includes responses from Australia, China, India, Japan, and South Korea; Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), with responses from France, Germany, Italy, the Middle East, the Netherlands, the Nordics, Spain, Turkey and the United Kingdom; and the Americas (AMER), with responses from Brazil, Canada, Mexico and the United States.