Future role of the graphic designer
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oh shit good thing I found a thread like this omg.
Hokaay, so in the future designers will do a lot more shit than they do now. Like in the 1950's they could have made posters or made the type or product designs and lots of other stuff like Massimo. But it was hard for most people to do that because everything took so much time, so it was a team effort, and most members of the team ended up doing technical details like cutting out fonts with X-actos.
Now one person can do all those things and more pretty well because many technical details are being handled by software. So there was already a big change in the economics and activities performed by people in the design industry.
I think in the future there will be even more software programs that will handle even more tasks for the designer. Focus groups, brain scans, UI auto-generation, UI auto-testing, eye tracking data sets, all kinds of neuroscience etc.. will all come in software packages just like Adobe's.
This will let one man handle a lot of work currently handled by hundreds of people in ad agencies and will make massive targeted advertising campaigns affordable to more businesses.
A designer, or advertiser will be able to really solve visual problems by having access to a lot of knowledge about neuroscience and the effect of design on people's every neuron. Today this is a guessing game with knowledge about the field dispersed among many specialties.
I also thought about future client/designer relations in the comments here
http://www.ideasonideas.com/2009…