I am an art school grad, have been an industrial designer, UX/UI designer, and have a lot of friends who are architects. Unless you are REALLY gifted aesthetica

I am an art school grad, have been an industrial designer, UX/UI designer, and have a lot of friends who are architects. Unless you are REALLY gifted aesthetically. I wouldn't go through the time/expense of design school. You could probably transition to UI design pretty easily. ID is an interesting field, but largely shrinking. Look at the open req's at what were top ID firms (Frog/Ideo/Continuum) Very few are doing much business designing things compared to UI's or some mech-e work. As for the RSI, the average designer spends a lot of time in the Adobe suite or a CAD package so it probably won't help. That said if you are really passionate go for it. Feel free to contact me if you want more info.