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Last post: 3 months, 1 week ago | Thread started: May 27, 08, 2:01 p.m.

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• dropclique

  i'm seeing more and more job postings for "visual designers." one job descriptions claims that this person "reports to art directors and works along side interaction designers." this makes me think visual designers are some sort of mysterious middle man.

  can anyone enlighten me?

  May 27, 08, 2:01 p.m. – Permalink

• eskeldson

  "Visual designer" sounds redundant.

  • definitely does..– dropclique1/4

    not at all. Designer doesn't assume visual.– jfletcher2/4

    Lint.– Spookytim3/4

    :O Spooky!– YAYPaul4/4

  

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  Dog-earMay 27, 08, 2:02 p.m. – Permalink

• akrokdesign

  is one of those "think out side the box" ideas. :-)

  • I don't only think out side the box... I eat it!– SoupCan1/2

    well, your one hungry fella. :-)
    
    – akrokdesign2/2

  

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  Dog-earMay 27, 08, 2:21 p.m. – Permalink

• avolve

  I challenge someone to design something that isn't visual

  • how about if you design for blind people.– akrokdesign1/14

    can we put lots and lots of money on this? pweez?– oozie2/14

    :-)– akrokdesign3/14

    "The Impossible Non-Visual Design Contest" 100,000$ prize– oozie4/14

    design music?– spork5/14

    audio design namely but if you design functional objects of any sort it's nessesarily going to be visual so much as something you can see– oozie6/14

    ...something you can see.– oozie7/14

    *not something that is visual just something you can see– oozie8/14

    even audio design has visual aspects. Unless you play the music spontaneously then simply remember it– avolve9/14

    take a film class and learn about actual audio DESIGN. it's deign you mnight use visual tools to get the job done.– oozie10/14

    even perfume designs, aste designers...these people exist. design engineers design all sorts of things that you can't even see because they're too damn small– oozie11/14

    ...even see because they're too damn small or completely conceptual. you can't see a network yet people design these using visual and mathematical tools etc.– oozie12/14

    "visual design" implies that a majority of effort was spent on apperance. There are plenty of functional objects that look like shit.– epigraph13/14

    shit. Or lots of times function and aesthetic are the responsibility of different people– epigraph14/14

  

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  Dog-earMay 27, 08, 2:23 p.m. – Permalink

• Douglas

  It's a bullshit canopy term created by tech companies.

  • you create the "look" of things. aka graphic designer.– Douglas1/2

    Bingo!– SoupCan2/2

  

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  Dog-earMay 27, 08, 2:48 p.m. – Permalink

• airey

  probably a new term for 'art director' with half the paycheck.

  

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  Dog-earMay 27, 08, 2:51 p.m. – Permalink

• SoupCan

  I visually design the look of designing some sort of visual.

  • are the visuals of visuals involved somehow?– Gucci

  

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  Dog-earMay 27, 08, 2:51 p.m. – Permalink

• morilla

  people who come up with the overall look and feel. Then hand off the assets to programmers and production artists.

  • art director without the responsibility.– morilla

  

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  Dog-earMay 27, 08, 3:21 p.m. – Permalink

• gramme

  I'm holding out for that special Blind Embosser position.

  

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  Dog-earMay 27, 08, 3:31 p.m. – Permalink

• uncle_helv

  Hahaha visual designer, isn't that kind of a given in the world of graphics.

  • no.– jfletcher1/2

    yes.– avolve2/2

  

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  Dog-earMay 27, 08, 3:35 p.m. – Permalink

• jfletcher

  I'm with morilla. Interaction Designers look at behavior and flow. Visual handle look and feel. Two very different things. I don't konw why it's so odd to most here...

  • Okay... but why not just designer then?– uncle_helv1/3

    you need something.. otherwise could be industrial designer?– ribit2/3

    but then car designers have job titles like 'Creative Designer' which also doesn't say anything about cars...– ribit3/3

  

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  Dog-earMay 27, 08, 3:40 p.m. – Permalink

• jfletcher

  uncle_helv - design could be applied to a variety of situations. Visual, Interation, Information, etc helps parse down a specialty. I could say I'm a designer, but to say I'm an interaction design gets to much more what I do, which is look at behavior. I don't want people assuming the wrong thing... but to people who don't know the field, I do just say "designer"

  

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  Dog-earMay 27, 08, 3:44 p.m. – Permalink

• uncle_helv

  Really I did not know that! please don't patronise me fletcher

  • huh? Why are you pissed? I didn't know you knew that. You asked. I didn't mean it in a patronizing way.– jfletcher

  

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  Dog-earMay 27, 08, 3:50 p.m. – Permalink

• vespa

  A few months ago when I was trying to hire someone with strong visual AND interaction skills, I kept getting lots of people with good interaction design skills but no clue about visuals, because I hadn't specified that it was a visual position. There are a lot of designers out there like that now. Weird but true. I don't understand when the split happened. Said people usually ask "visual designers" to "make it look pretty".

  • Pretty Designers...– avolve1/2

    Thanks!– dropclique2/2

  

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  Dog-earMay 27, 08, 4:20 p.m. – Permalink

• jfletcher

  it's a shame when people equate visual to pretty :( ...and it happens all the time.

  

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  Dog-earMay 27, 08, 4:24 p.m. – Permalink

• moamoa

  aha aha

  visual cosmetic surgeon ?

  • add "designer" to the end and it's finished!– jfletcher

  

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  Dog-earMay 27, 08, 4:25 p.m. – Permalink

• Invalid

  This is not a new term at all.

  Visual Designers work mostly online. The idea is that the Interaction Designer develops basic interaction methods, patterns and prototypes based on user research. The Interaction Designer does not have a say in the look and feel.

  The Visual Designer then takes that information in the form of a wireframe or prototype and gives it a visual treatment. This involves, colours, typography, lay-out, image size etc.The wireframe is subject to change based on visual treatments in order to assist in better user interaction.

  • < no– studderine1/5

    uh... yes.
    I am actualy an Interaction and Visual designer.
    I work with both sides.– Invalid2/5

    you have been duped.– studderine3/5

    You are an idiot– Invalid4/5

    good one!– studderine5/5

  

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  Dog-earMay 27, 08, 4:35 p.m. – Permalink

• vespa

  sometimes I think the design industry has split the work up into all these specialisms just to keep us all employed.

  • thank god for that– flashbender1/2

    just to keep skilled people employed :)– jfletcher2/2

  

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  Dog-earMay 27, 08, 4:35 p.m. – Permalink

• dropclique

  Thanks guys, some of you ;)

  

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  Dog-earMay 27, 08, 5:03 p.m. – Permalink

• akrokdesign

  i think they use "visual" in stead of "graphic" only cause they prefer the word visual.

  

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  Dog-earMay 27, 08, 10:48 p.m. – Permalink

• tparsons

  visually impaired designer (paints billboards)

  

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  Dog-earMay 27, 08, 10:51 p.m. – Permalink