This article deals with the problem related to the development of design and assessment thereof in the industrial design of Latvia. It has been detected that assessment parameters and common methodology, which would result in optimum assessment of a design product, have not been developed. Parameters for evaluation of two types of competitions and a very primitive method for assessment of results is discussed in this paper. It is recommended to develop specific parameters for the assessment of a design product and to use the Pareto method for summarisation of results.