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From: "Stuart Foulstone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:48:57 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Re: [WSG] Visual Design Of Websites
Yes, but that's still graphic design of the appearance of Websites,
NOT
Website Design.
It's not designing the dynamic structure, usability and accessibility
(using Web standards) essential for good Website design which will
hold
across different platforms/browsers in which the user has control
(not the
graphic designer).
And no, the visual design should not be the first thing to consider in
meeting a client's requirements. Too many bad Websites have been
produced
in which graphic designers who have pretended to be Website
designers and
placed the visual design first and insist that this is paramount.
On Thu, July 12, 2007 12:48 am, Breton Slivka wrote:
Argghh no! the ignorance! Just stop going about thinking you know
what
you're talking about when it comes to Graphic Design! Graphic
Design isn't
"Make it Purdy", Graphic design isn't "Learn how to use
photoshop". It's
exactly that perception that leads to awful website after awful
website.
Certainly, aesthetic beauty is a *side effect* of the design
process, but
*do not* make the mistake of thinking that's what graphic design is.
Graphic design for print design has four aspects:
Client Needs
Audience Expectations
Process (Identifying the problem space, going through many
iterations,
selecting the best solutions, and iterative refinement. This
involves a A
knowledge of the principles of good typography, and the principles
of good
visual design of course, but it is not pure visual design)
Craftsmanship
The graphic design process on the web is no different.
A Good graphic designer (one who is familiar with what graphic design
actually is, rather than the ignorant stereotype you just displayed)
Should
be involved in the process as EARLY and as OFTEN as possible. Not
in the
last step as you suggest. *Most* of this Graphic Designer's time
should be
spent with pencils and paper, and not in Photoshop or Illustrator.
A great
deal of time evaluating the problem at hand, and iteratively
simplifying
the
solution. This is graphic design. If this is not what you've
found in
graphic designers in the past, then you have accidentally hired a
Stylist,
or possibly an Illustrator, not a graphic designer.
Please do not slander my profession in the future.
And P.S. this is a little tongue in cheek, so don't take too much
offense.
But seriously, you are wrong about graphic design.
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