After contrasting the pleasant images of fpp.net website (http://fpp.net ) with the ghastly drawings of Yale School of Art (https://www.art.yale.edu/), my appreciation for graphic design has deepened profoundly, and has provided inspiration for research for this class.
As a future web designer, this class will be valuable to me. Understanding how to research correctly and ethically is an important skill for most professions, and critical in continually evolving fields like web design. Another benefit of this class will be increasing my understanding of how to interpret research findings. As research continually advances knowledge about human computer interaction as it applies to web design, staying current with recent innovations and discoveries is essential.
Graphics are an integral part of websites and apps; often they surpass text in importance. As the global reach of the internet expands, the prominence of graphics will continue to increase because they communicate across language barriers. Developing graphics that communicate cross-culturally presents an additional challenge for designers. The power of art is so well recognized that often instructions for assembling furniture and recreational equipment are a series of drawings showing the various steps.
As I consider the value of graphics in web design, some questions arise. Possible topics for research may include:
Which drawings communicate effectively? Which graphics should be adapted for different cultures or people groups?
How does the choice of graphics influence human computer interaction? Can changing a graphic make a website confusing, mediocre, or outstanding?
Discovering which graphics are most universally understood, and how improving the graphics on a website or mobile app may affect viewership and sales will be invaluable to any web designer.
I’m looking forward to finding what I can learn from this project.