Commercial design encompasses a wide range of sub specialties.

• Retail: includes malls and shopping centers, department stores, specialty stores, visual merchandising and showrooms.

• Visual and Spatial Branding: The use of space as a medium to express a corporate brand.

• Corporate: office design for any kind of business such as banks.

• Healthcare: the design of hospitals, assisted living facilities, medical offices, dentist offices, psychiatric facilities, laboratories, medical specialist facilities.

• Hospitality and Recreation: includes hotels, motels, resorts, cruise ships, cafes, bars, casinos, nightclubs, theaters, music and concert halls, opera houses, sports venues, restaurants, gyms, health clubs and spas, etc.

• Institutional: government offices, financial institutions (banks and credit unions), schools and universities, religious facilities, etc.

• Industrial facilities: manufacturing and training facilities as well as import and export facilities.[21]

• Exhibition: includes museums, gallery, exhibition hall, specially the design for showroom and exhibition gallery.

• Traffic building: includes bus station, subway station, airports, pier, etc.

• Sports: includes gyms, stadiums, swimming rooms, basketball hall, etc.

• Teaching in a private institute that offer classes of Interior Design

• Self-employment

• Employment in private sector firms