Week 5 - Graphic Design

During lecture this week, our guest lecturer, Mr Radzi Bedu talk about graphic design. What is graphic design?  I asked a friend of mine from FOM, from his point of view he understands that graphic design is all about designing picture to look good. Part of it was a little bit true. Though making a good picture to look nice n beautiful, there are more to the term of ‘graphic design’.

From what we have learnt from a simple lecture by Mr Radzi, graphic design is a way of people to communicate and a good graphic designer would find a way to convey their messages through pictures, illustration and images. A proper definition of graphic design would be visual communication. 

People from the early ages learnt to communicate with their surroundings and graphic design has brought a whole new meaning to communication. To conclude the lecture, a good graphic design manage to make people understand the message behind all the graphics, and if it work means that the design is really good. To be a good graphic designer I learnt that these 4 things are really important. AIDA!

HCI + Problems?

As briefly mentioned in previous post, Human Computer Interaction (HCI) did improved our lifestyle in terms of gadgets and technologies. As a designer, we also plays an important role as people nowadays have a very high expectations on everything. So, in terms of having good design and also manage to help people to interact with the technologies, there are many things that need to be considered to satisfied everyone. However, problems might arise because as been told 'people wont change if they don't want to'.

In my personal view, i think that problems will always arise but every thing can be solved and people will adapt with the changes of the technologies because no one likes to be left behind if the crowd  do it.