As part of my work toward my Business Marketing degree, I've been taking Interface Design classes for the past few weeks!
If you've been following these blog posts for a while and have an idea of my work outside of it (which I assume you at least somewhat do if you're on my website), you can probably see this is more in my natural area of work. That's visual design, colors and their meanings, typefaces, leading, spacing, so on and so forth. Everything that goes into designing webpages or any other visual interfaces.
My design work is usually with character art more than logos, but what I'm learning here is still enjoyable to me! I'm working with Adobe Illustrator for the sake of this class, which uses vector images rather than raster ones. It's an interesting change of pace!
It's not all visual design. You need to think carefully about what audience you're catering to and adjust accordingly! For example, In this class, we've done examples of someone distrustful of government and marketing and someone else who can't speak or read English.
You need to consider where people will view your work and what format fits it best. Does it need to be printed and retain full color or just be displayed on a webpage? Does it need to be high quality or low quality? Should it be a vector or raster format? Will you need to edit it later on, or is it complete in its current form? These are all things you need to consider when choosing a file format.
A lot goes into this kind of work, and I'm not done with it yet. I'm looking forward to seeing where it goes!
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