Is Industrial Design Very Technical / Engineering Related?

Even things like furniture and simple everyday objects require you getting your hands dirty with tools. Beautiful furniture usually comes from an understanding of things like joinery, materials, sewing etc. It’s one thing to try and draw or describe a great piece of furniture, it’s another thing to figure out how you’re going to drill that 22.5 degree hole so that each of the legs in your table sits the way you intended and doesn’t snap off.

So either you need to be willing to dive deeper into the other side of the fence as part of the learning process, or consider focusing on other areas like research, product management, interaction design, etc.