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AllisonLaMotte
Staff
Hi James!
Unfortunately, a lot of IDs have no graphic design training at all, which is why we see still a lot of courses like these.
Unfortunately, a lot of IDs have no graphic design training at all, which is why we see still a lot of courses like these.
JamesWashok
6 years agoCommunity Member
:)
I keep telling my immediate boss how lucky he is; I come from an educational background (secondary science teacher) who then moved into advertising and web development. With 20 years' experience in graphic and web design and development, along with some dabbling in audio/video production, topped off with a Master's Degree in Curriculum Development specializing in ID Technology, he doesn't need to have a development team along with an ID.
But, you ARE right. The courses I am rebuilding from the previous team of "ID" professionals is WAY out of line of what would be considered ok practices let alone best practices. To top it off, these two also built on the same template, adding to it, but never removing obsolete or unused objects. It took me nearly a month to rebuild and rebrand our courseware material and start making our department look viable again.
I think you hit the nail on the head though; traditional ID education is NOT graphic art or visual design training. I think that needs to be addressed in the future or we're going to wind up with some less-than-favorable material and eLearning.
I keep telling my immediate boss how lucky he is; I come from an educational background (secondary science teacher) who then moved into advertising and web development. With 20 years' experience in graphic and web design and development, along with some dabbling in audio/video production, topped off with a Master's Degree in Curriculum Development specializing in ID Technology, he doesn't need to have a development team along with an ID.
But, you ARE right. The courses I am rebuilding from the previous team of "ID" professionals is WAY out of line of what would be considered ok practices let alone best practices. To top it off, these two also built on the same template, adding to it, but never removing obsolete or unused objects. It took me nearly a month to rebuild and rebrand our courseware material and start making our department look viable again.
I think you hit the nail on the head though; traditional ID education is NOT graphic art or visual design training. I think that needs to be addressed in the future or we're going to wind up with some less-than-favorable material and eLearning.
- AllisonLaMotte6 years agoStaffI think that a lot of ID training assumes that people will be working with teams of graphic designers and developers, which isn't always the case. Hopefully in the future they will start teaching graphic design as well as UI and UX design in these courses, because they are super important concepts for IDs.