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The aim of this study was to find out how the creative design process is affected when using material techniques. The data for this study was collected through an online survey. The survey was sent to the students of Aalto University’s School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Craft Science students at University of Helsinki and students of University of Lapland’s Faculty of Art and Design. The survey was conducted during the spring semester of 2022. The survey inquired students’ skills in different areas of the creative design process on a 5-point Likert scale, as well as numbers of different material techniques they used to aid their design process. The data was analysed using IBM SPSS Statistics (version 28.0.0.0 (190)) software. The research methods used were mainly quantitative. The aspects of design competence were studied using exploratory factor analysis. Three factors were extracted from the data: analysing process, creative design and defining assignment. Together they explain 36,1% of the variance in creative design competence. Material techniques were grouped together to form a sum variable that was divided into five groups to describe the amount of material techniques used by a respondent. Difference in aspects of design competence was compared between bachelor’s and master’s students using the t-test. The relationship between the aspects of design competence and the material techniques used was investigated using a Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA). Respondents were also formed into groups in terms of fields of study, whose use of material technologies was compared with a Mann-Whitney’s U-test. The study revealed that there was no statistically significant difference in aspects of design competence between bachelor’s and master’s students. Using material techniques had a small but statistically significant effect on the analysing process (p=,009 ETA²=,086). There was a difference between the two groups that used material techniques the least. Comparison between different fields of study revealed how the use of material techniques varied in different fields of design.