What is Graphic Design?

In the previous lecture,Mr.Razi Bedu had been invited to give a talk about Graphic Design so before I start to talk or explain what is Graphic Design I'll like to share what other people think about Graphic Design.My brother is from MMU Melaka and he's in Business Admin.I ask him what will you answer if people come to you and ask what is Graphic Design.He said, Graphic Design is something that got to do with computer and it's something like abstract kind of design with many kind of colour.Sometime he said it look a like air brush painting that most teenagers like to do on the wall.I guess People who don't really learn art they think Graphic Design is all about create something in the software and that's it.

Graphic Design is actually in common thinking is something that we use to communicate with people in non-verbal communication or form of  visual communication. It's sort of like poster,typography,create a business logo,type a letter,any magazine or newspaper ads or album cover, these are all call Graphic Design.

Graphic Design is something that we can say its creative because of the combination of art and computer to create or communicate the idea directly to the audience.The main tool in creating a perfect Graphic Design artwork are image and typography.Once you know all the rule in design and you know how to use a perfect compositon, definately you'll get a good  art work.

Sometimes There Are Thing You Need To Decide.Affordance

Affordance is something that allow user to perform something with action and without instruction. For example, like pulling or pushing or even twisting a door knob.According to Norman (1988) an affordance is the design aspect of an object which suggest how the object should be used; a visual clue to its function and use.As a human been,we do thing by observe it and look what other people do and automatically it will send to our brain and we know how to do sentence thing. If the designer create a chair at first we don't really know what to do with the chair after we look what other people do so then we know how to use it and we also will automatically know and set it our brain the chair is for us to sit.For conclusion what I understand is affordance is the matter of knowing how to use it.(taken from http://www.interaction-design.org/encyclopedia/affordances.html) Norman writes:

"...the term affordance refers to the perceived and actual properties of the thing, primarily those fundamental properties that determine just how the thing could possibly be used. [...] Affordances provide strong clues to the operations of things. Plates are for pushing. Knobs are for turning. Slots are for inserting things into. Balls are for throwing or bouncing. When affordances are taken advantage of, the user knows what to do just by looking: no picture, label, or instruction needed." (Norman 1988, p.9)

HCI (Human–computer interaction)

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Human computer interaction is a planning between people and the computer. It's how people as human interact with the computers.The user interface such as GUI shows how a human can interacts with the computer and the HCI job is to go beyond designing screens and make the apps or menus become easy to use and they need to studies the reasoning behind the functionality into computers and they also need to know what the effect that systems will have on humans.


What happend now like what we can see the computers become more and there are so many type,shape,colour,usage and also its already become pervasive in culture.Almost half of the world use computer to go to the social network so what the designers can do is they need to increase the looking for ways to make interfacing with devices easier,safer and more efficient from the previous.


To me nowadays, every human need computer because most of their daily life will deal with this all kind of gadget.I would like to share this one taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%E2%80%93computer_interaction " human-computer interaction studies a human and a machine in conjunction, it draws from supporting knowledge on both the machine and the human side. On the machine side, techniques in computer graphics, operating systems, programming languages, and development environments are relevant. On the human side, communication theory, graphic and industrial design disciplines, linguistics,social sciences, cognitive psychology, and human factors such as computer user satisfaction are relevant. Engineering and design methods are also relevant. Due to the multidisciplinary nature of HCI, people with different backgrounds contribute to its success. HCI is also sometimes referred to as man–machine interaction (MMI) or computer–human interaction (CHI)."

What is Interaction? week 1

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Interaction is something dealing with 2 or more objects.This is when the designer take their part to create something so that they can well react or interact with their target audiences. For example take a minute and think about your daily favorite thing that you as a user love to use like your hand phone, Ipod, Ipad, Iphone, printer,laptop,television and etc.All of this thing is something that the designer use to interact with their target audience.Once people like their work they will definitely buy it.It also will create good relationship between the product and the customer.Other example the feedback during the operation of machines such as a computer or tool, for example the interaction between a driver and the position of his or her car on the road by steering the driver influences this position, by observation this information returns to the driver.(taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interaction)