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Virginia

2005-07-27, 4:18 am

I saw in an earlier post someone tell someone not to confuse web design with
graphic design. What is the difference?

Disco Octopus

2005-07-27, 4:18 am

Virginia wrote :
> I saw in an earlier post someone tell someone not to confuse web design with
> graphic design. What is the difference?

web design is designing your web site.

graphic design is designing your logos, business cards, graphics for
your web sites, product display panels, packaging, etc.... anything I
suppose.

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Ben Measures

2005-07-27, 7:40 am

Virginia wrote:
> I saw in an earlier post someone tell someone not to confuse web design with
> graphic design. What is the difference?

Graphic design is the design of graphics, appearance and aesthetics.

Web design is using web technology to implement graphic design. It
includes consideration of the implications of utilised technology, in
terms of accessibility, useability, interactivity, functionality and more.

Treating web design as simply graphic design will lead to a poorly
implemented website.

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Ben M.

richard_quick_uk@hotmail.com

2005-07-28, 7:40 am

All design has - or should have - a purpose.

With graphic design the purpose is generally to get somebody to buy
something - either a product or a service. For instance a poster or
magazine advert for your local supermarket is trying to get you to
visit the store or website to buy things from them. Likewise the
packages of the products on the supermarket shelf will have been
designed to encourage you to but that paricular product. Graphic
designers use lots of techniques to encourage you to but the product,
or identify with the brand. For instance they may put a picture of an
attractive woman on the poster to grab your atention, and make you
think that if you buy the product you can have 'a girl like that'.
Most of these techniques make the design 'look nice' - or at least the
designer thinks they do.

Web design has much more in common with product design. Products, like
posters, have to look nice. But they also have to be used. A car with
a nice body, but a poor engine is not a good thing.

If you visit your local supermarket's online store it may look lovely,
but you also need to be able to use it. If it's hard to undertand,
slow to download, or it' hard to find your favorite brand of toothpaste
then you're likely to just give up and go to a competitor's site.
Looks are important, but they're not the be-all and end-all. A dull
site that works well is better - in many cases - than a gorgeous site
that is hard, or slow, to use.

And that's the key difference. Websites have to be used. Adverts
don't.

Also print designers don't have to worry about different browsers,
operating systems, screen resolutions etc etc. Paper tends to stay the
same size and works in most circumstances (except in the dark or
underwater).

Hope this helps...

Richard Quick
http://www.scaredoftheweb.com/