visual designer?
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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?
- eskeldson0
"Visual designer" sounds redundant.
- definitely does..dropclique
- not at all. Designer doesn't assume visual.jfletcher
- Lint.Spookytim
- :O Spooky!YAYPaul
- akrokdesign0
is one of those "think out side the box" ideas. :-)
- I don't only think out side the box... I eat it!SoupCan
- well, your one hungry fella. :-)
akrokdesign
- avolve0
I challenge someone to design something that isn't visual
- how about if you design for blind people.akrokdesign
- can we put lots and lots of money on this? pweez?oozie
- :-)akrokdesign
- "The Impossible Non-Visual Design Contest" 100,000$ prizeoozie
- design music?spork
- 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 seeoozie
- ...something you can see.oozie
- *not something that is visual just something you can seeoozie
- even audio design has visual aspects. Unless you play the music spontaneously then simply remember itavolve
- take a film class and learn about actual audio DESIGN. it's deign you mnight use visual tools to get the job done.oozie
- 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 smalloozie
- ...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.oozie
- "visual design" implies that a majority of effort was spent on apperance. There are plenty of functional objects that look like shit.epigraph
- shit. Or lots of times function and aesthetic are the responsibility of different peopleepigraph
- airey0
probably a new term for 'art director' with half the paycheck.
- SoupCan0
I visually design the look of designing some sort of visual.
- morilla0
people who come up with the overall look and feel. Then hand off the assets to programmers and production artists.
- gramme0
I'm holding out for that special Blind Embosser position.
- uncle_helv0
Hahaha visual designer, isn't that kind of a given in the world of graphics.
- jfletcher0
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_helv
- you need something.. otherwise could be industrial designer?ribit
- but then car designers have job titles like 'Creative Designer' which also doesn't say anything about cars...ribit
- jfletcher0
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"
- uncle_helv0
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
- vespa0
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".
- jfletcher0
it's a shame when people equate visual to pretty :( ...and it happens all the time.
- moamoa0
aha aha
visual cosmetic surgeon ?
- Invalid0
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.
- < nostudderine
- uh... yes.
I am actualy an Interaction and Visual designer.
I work with both sides.Invalid - you have been duped.studderine
- You are an idiotInvalid
- good one!studderine
- vespa0
sometimes I think the design industry has split the work up into all these specialisms just to keep us all employed.
- thank god for thatflashbender
- just to keep skilled people employed :)jfletcher
- dropclique0
Thanks guys, some of you ;)
- akrokdesign0
i think they use "visual" in stead of "graphic" only cause they prefer the word visual.
- tparsons0
visually impaired designer (paints billboards)