Graphic design is a craft where professionals create visual
content to communicate messages. By applying visual hierarchy and page layout
techniques, designers use typography and pictures to meet users’ specific needs
and focus on the logic of displaying elements in interactive designs, to
optimize the user experience.
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Graphic Design is about molding the User
Experience Visually
Graphic design is an ancient craft, dating back past Egyptian
hieroglyphs to at least 17,000-year-old cave paintings. It’s a term that
originated in the 1920s’ print industry. It continues to cover a range of
activities including logo creation. Graphic design in this sense concerns
aesthetic appeal and marketing. Graphic designers attract viewers using images,
color and typography. However, graphic designers working in userexperience (UX) design must justify stylistic choices regarding, say,
image locations and font with a human-centered approach. That
means you need to focus on—and seek to empathize the
most with—your specific users while you create good-looking designs that
maximize usability.
Aesthetics must serve a purpose—in UX design we don’t create art for art’s
sake. So, graphic designers must branch into visualdesign. When designing for UX, you should:
1.
Consider the information
architecture of your interactive designs, to ensure accessibility for
users.
2.
Leverage graphic design
skills to create work that considers the entire user
experience, including users’ visual processing abilities.
For instance, if an otherwise pleasing mobile app can’t offer
users what they need in several thumb-clicks, its designer/s will have failed
to marry graphic design to user experience. The scope of graphic design in UX
covers the creation of beautiful designs that users find highly pleasurable,
meaningful and usable.
Graphic Design is Emotional Design
Although to work in the digital age means you must design with
interactive software, graphic design still revolves around age-old principles.
It’s crucial that you strike the right chord with users from their first
glance—hence graphic design’s correspondence with emotional
design. As a graphic designer, then, you should have a
firm understanding of color theory and how vital the right choice of color
scheme is. Color choices must reflect not only the organization (e.g.,
blue suits banking) but also users’ expectations (e.g.,
red for alerts; green for notifications to proceed). You should design
with an eye for how elements match the tone (e.g.,
sans-serif fonts for excitement or happiness). You also need to design
for the overall effect, and note how you shape users’ emotions
as you guide them from, for instance, a landing page to a call to action.
Often, graphic designers are involved in motion design for smaller screens.
They will carefully monitor how their works’ aesthetics match their users’
expectations. They can enhance their designs’ usability in a flowing, seamless
experience by anticipating the users’ needs and mindsets. With user psychology
in mind, it’s important to stay focused on some especially weighty graphic
design considerations, namely these:
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Symmetry
and Balance (including symmetry types)
·
Flow
·
Repetition
·
Pattern
·
The
Golden Ratio (i.e., proportions of 1:1.618)
·
The
Rule of Thirds (i.e., how users’ eyes recognize good layout)
·
Typography (encompassing
everything from font choice to heading weight)
·
Audience
Culture (regarding color use—e.g., red as an alert or, in some
Eastern cultures, a signal of good fortune—and reading pattern: e.g., left to
right in Western cultures)
Overall, your mission—as far as graphic design goes in UX and UI
design—is to display information harmoniously.
You should ensure that beauty and usability go hand in hand,
and therefore your design can discreetly carry your organization’s ideals to
your users. When you establish a trustworthy visual presence, you hint to users
that you know what they want to do – not just because you’ve arranged
aesthetically pleasing elements that are where your users expect to find them,
or help them intuit their way around, but because the values which
your designs display mirror theirs, too. Your visual content will quickly
decide your design’s fate, so be sure not to overlook the slightest trigger
that may put users off.
Learn More about Graphic Design
Our encyclopedia addresses graphic design’s place in the world
of UX: https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/book/the-encyclopedia-of-human-computer-interaction-2nd-ed/visual-representation
This is a first-hand account on transitioning from graphic
design to UX design: https://uxdesign.cc/3-things-i-wish-i-knew-before-i-made-the-shift-from-graphic-design-to-ux-design-655af468c923
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Read this incisive piece that examines the similarities and
differences between graphic and UX design: https://theblog.adobe.com/ux-design-for-graphic-designers/
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