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💡 Why 3D graphic design? What are the advantages? 3D graphic design has become a transformative force in industries, helping creative professionals to craft immersive experiences and visuals. ✔ Visualization: It helps you in visualizing concepts and ideas, which is particularly useful in architecture, engineering, and interior design. ✔ Marketing: Companies use 3D designs for advertisements and product demonstrations to attract customers. ✔ Education: It can be used to create educational materials that are more engaging and easier to understand. ✔ Manufacturing: 3D models are essential in prototyping and understanding how different parts fit together. Women in Adria New York Women in Business Women Business Owners Women Entrepreneurship Empowerment - WEE

This week marked the end of being an industry expert for Loughborough University's Graphic Design Masters. We celebrated rock 'n' roll style with end-of-module presentations 🤘 I have surprised myself with how much I've learnt and enjoyed this experience. Here are my three key takeaways: 1️⃣ Research is everything As standard, research is the first thing you do at the start of every project. But in an educational setting, research can often feel like a box-ticking exercise. Knowing why we research is the gateway to appreciating its true weight and influence. Knowledge is power. The more we learn, the more we achieve. Let's get really curious with how research influences our decision-making. 2️⃣ Always engage critical thinking Know your why. It is essential as a designer to rationalise everything. We don't design for the sake of making something look "pretty", we design with purpose. We design to communicate. Utilise your research, your peers, your surroundings. Let's enrich our critical thinking. Imagine you're going to court and a lawyer will probe you on why you did the things you do. Let critical thinking be your wingman. 3️⃣ I miss being around creatives I love my self-employment. I've grown in ways I could never have imagined. But if there's one thing I've missed is being around fellow creatives as often. Design is an industry where everyone can have an opinion. Design is naturally subjective, unfortunately, not everyone has the education and training in the field to engage with design critically. I've loved being around the students and lecturers. I've missed hearing a variety of perspectives and opinions, challenging one another and expanding our minds. 🤷♀️ In summary? Thank you so much Dr. Stefania Sansoni, Ph.D. and Dr. Alis Diana Iacob (PhD) for having me. Until we meet again...

The Power of Presentation Design in Universities: Empowering Students for Success As a graphic designer, I've seen firsthand the impact a well-crafted presentation can have on communicating ideas, engaging audiences, and achieving academic success. In universities, presentation design plays a crucial role in helping students effectively convey their research, projects, and ideas. Why Presentation Design Matters in Universities: Clear communication: Presentations help students clearly articulate complex ideas and research findings Visual storytelling: Engaging visuals and graphics enhance understanding and retention Confidence booster: Well-designed presentations empower students to present with confidence and authority Academic success: Effective presentations can make or break grades, scholarships, and career opportunities Benefits of Working with a Presentation Designer: Professional templates: Customizable, visually appealing templates tailored to academic needs Design expertise: Guidance on layout, typography, color, and imagery to enhance visual impact Time-saving: Students can focus on content while the designer handles visual elements Consistency: Ensure university branding and style guidelines are met University Presentation Design Services: Research posters: Eye-catching, informative posters for conferences and exhibitions Dissertation presentations: Professional slides and visual aids for final defenses Group projects: Collaborative presentation design for team assignments Academic pitching: Compelling presentations for grant proposals, scholarships, and competitions Empower Your Academic Journey! Don't let poor presentation design hold you back! Collaborate with a presentation designer to elevate your academic presentations and achieve success. #PresentationDesign #UniversityLife #AcademicSuccess #GraphicDesign #StudentEmpowerment

What do you learn from an undergrad design degree? I found the list of classes I took in my undergrad! Each class was about 20 weeks, taken over a span of four years. I loved every sleepless minute of it. I graduated 20 years ago. I wonder how much it’s changed, because almost everything I learned is still relevant today. Dark room 1 Dark room 2 Communication Design Fundamentals Design History 1 Color and Communication Design History 2 Design Studio 1 Design Drawing Human Experience in Design History of Art Design Studio 2 Design Drawing 2 Introduction to Photography and Design Contemporary Design Chairs in the 20th Century Design and Culture Generation of Form 1 How People Work Prototyping Digital Prototyping Business of Design Photo Video Film Making Meaning of Form How Things Work Photography Documentation Creating Pleasurable Products Engineering Design Projects, DuPont Product Design 3 How Things are Made Visual Notation Drawing Expression and Communication Emotional Reasoning in Design Products in Systems Advanced Digital Prototyping Production Prototyping Visualization Creating Breakthrough Products, Alcan Junior Independent Study, Body Media Writing and Photography Senior Project: Interaction Design Photography the First Hundred Years Photo Book Design Not everyone has the time, finances and resources to go to college. I’m lucky and privileged enough that I got to go. Best way is to share the knowledge and pass it along. What was your favorite class?

Advancing in your career? Picture it as building a foundation, not climbing a ladder. Every skill you acquire is like adding a sturdy brick. Each tool you master becomes another layer of strength. As a graphic designer with years of experience, I've observed: • New skills = Expanded capabilities • Mastered tools = Increased efficiency • Continuous learning = Sustainable growth My transition from CAD Engineer to Creative Graphic Designer taught me valuable lessons: 1. Embrace change - it fuels your professional development 2. Integrate technical expertise with creative abilities 3. Consistently explore and adopt new tools I'm curious: What skill has been most impactful in strengthening your career foundation? Please share your insights below. Together, we can build a community of lifelong learners and innovators. #ProfessionalDevelopment #ContinuousLearning

It all started in my classroom for my graphic design degree where I was first introduced to the design thinking process, since then my understanding of creativity, design, and problem-solving has exponentially grown. After the course on design thinking from the MIT media lab, reading books, articles, blogs and personal practice, the design thinking process remained blurry and incapable of providing a linear or nonlinear approach to real-world issues. As my graduation was approaching, nearly 90% of my classmates couldn’t recall any design thinking process nor could they understand or explain it, the term was familiar to many of them. As we know it today, Design Thinking (DT) results from IDEOs codification and mechanisation to address business needs. Design Thinking was initially created to address innovation needs and it was heavily impacted by World War II. IDEO, a design and consulting firm with offices in China, the U.S. and England played a crucial role in the popularisation of the Design Thinking (DT) process making it more accessible and user-friendly to designers and non-designers. Throughout the years the Design Thinking process has been negatively criticised by professional designers, journalists, and researchers in the field. One of these critiques is empathy bias, which refers to the possibility that the designer or designers might have a limited view of the world or might only recognise user insights that affirm their preconceptions, leading to a low chance of effective problem-solving. One of the main issues with the classic design thinking process is that despite its alterations and added phases by the Design Council in 2005, a consistent and universal framework that addresses most/many needs of today’s systems or social expectations is yet to be invented. In my dissertation I have introduced a new approach to the design problem. I created a linear #design #framework with guided loops to help designers avoid confusion, blackouts, or even providing an initiation point. The 7 Days Design Domain 7DDD can only be accessed through a personal DM on LinkedIn, please contact me if you’d like to access the paper. Julian Elezi #designthinking

We are being let down by Design education I've spoken a fair amount recently around the lack of business and strategic teaching for new and developing designers. 3 reasons that have come up in recent conversations I’ve had: 1. It’s not the primary concern for the younger designers that are typically on them 2. The value / importance of those skills are still not fully recognised 3. The people teaching don’t have the knowledge themselves Without these business / sales / strategic skills, designers are joining orgs with great knowledge about the double diamond, affinity mapping and personas but without the frameworks and language skills to demonstrate how they work within the bigger picture. To me it’s a problem to fix as the lack of it is hurting us. Design is more than just pushing pixels. Design can push boundaries. But to get there, if we want a “seat at the table” or even more responsibility and sway We need to be able to adequately speak to AND show the value we can bring For me this needs to start (to some degree) at the beginning - from the first stages of Design education Happy to hear other views though! #Design

It doesn't matter how good your design education is, if the business doesn't understand design, or why it needs you! Frustratingly, organisations just don't seem to understand that when they want to change something, or do something new, they are embarking on a design process, not a build process. Design shouldn't be seen as an operational cost, it's an investment in future outcomes, and that process requires the effective product management of designers, developers, architects, analysts, and business SMEs all working together! Even developers are are part of the design process because until it's in production, there are still unknowns, and challenges. I often say, if your business was a hotel, would you employ your operational staff to build it for you? Or would you buy bricks, and hire bricklayers and give them a fixed deadline? Or would you want to hire expert designers, and architects, surveyors, engineers, electricians etc etc?! #design #productmanagement #strategy #whatisproduct

Great points here—this really resonates with me! I've been reflecting on how, as a design community, we still see a whole heck of a lot of 'us versus them' thinking. While I get the frustration around people not fully understanding or valuing design, it’s time we shift our focus. Rather than always trying to educate others about design, let's emphasize business and product strategy and become active listeners with our business partners, as we are with our users. Let’s dive into the business side, just like we do with our clients. Let's be the perfect business partner while we champion our users.

I have always wondered why Design exams test your skills with pen and papers when the world is all about paths and pixels. Well here is the answer- 1- More Time thinking, less time executing-Although they may appear to be time intensive to create, pencil sketches can be developed rather quickly. This affords the design team more time to refine and perfect their thinking. 2- Breaking the confines of digital execution- working with pencil and paper gives the designer the freedom to explore without having to start with the default shapes that digital tools produce, or the unnatural motion of clicking and dragging to create paths or brush strokes. 3-It gives you freedom for exploring-Students learned to externalize their thoughts, methodically explore creative options, as well as distinguish between common and unique. Many recognized how generating ideas in quantity enables the less interesting ideas to be discarded, paving the way for the emergence of creativity.