Response 4

At the beginning of this reading, we read an article titled ‘Is there too much to know to be an effective designer?’ I very much already have an opinion on this one. I believe that yes, we do need to learn so much to be a effective designer, and I believe that a four year degree is not enough time for us ti effectively learn everything, unless we, like myself, were given the opportunity  to intern somewhere or given a apprenticeship opportunity. As a designer we need to be, pretty outgoing, a peoples’ person, someone that people feel that they could easily talk to, a writer, someone who is excellent on picking up social cues, being able to take change very well, and that is not even scratching the surface of what designers need to be. Along with that, we need to be up to date with the current trends, software, lingo and more! Also, if you have the ability to do something more specialized, then you better practice it and try to incorporated it into your design as much as possible. In my limited experience as a graphic designer, it almost feels like we need to be a combination of a artist who is never happy with his works and always looking to improve, a social butterfly that never falters, and a car sales person who is trying to persuade you into buying a used car that you personally put back together. We need to be excellent in so many skills, in to some, it can be too much to handle, and I feel that the feel is also very unforgiving because of that. For instance, I use to have a friend in the graphic design major who was extremely anxious. They couldn’t do some things, because they got extremely nervous and would throw up form the anxiety. Unfortunately, they dropped out of the major soon after, but because they could handle a part of design that is important, they couldn’t be an effective designer. The kinda goes in line of the next article I’m going to mention, and it’s the article titled ‘The Fundamental Job of Design is Not Great Design’ by Karl Fast.
As the name of the article suggest, this article talks about the job scene for graphic designers and how those jobs are not places that foster great design. I must say, the title sounds like clickbait, but I digress. The author’s first point is that organizations have embraces design to further their mission, but in order to make great design, it doesn’t just stand alone. The author says that the design is like an organ that helps function the body as a whole, I very much agree with this because, even though you might make a bomb social media campaign, if there is drop off in another part of the company like the manufacturing or marketing, then the product as a whole fails. It doesn’t matter that the social media campaign looks good, if the customer doesn’t approve of the product due to other means.