CST 328 - Module 1

 Week 1,

The first week of the course CST 328 Digital Analysis & Design has largely to do with technology, design, and aesthetic principles. With the focus of applying fundamental concepts of art and design to a range of commercial, expressive, and entertainment forms.

With the first week, the main tasks involved understanding some differences between digital file formats, how we can optimize our projects in photoshop, and the general design process. Going into more detail about the design process, there are a few key things to note. There is a competitive audit, which refers to the analysis of competitor products and how we can highlight its strengths and weaknesses to improve our own design. The next few things involve wireframes. There are low-fidelity and high-fidelity wireframes which generally give an idea of where key elements of a piece of media are located, such as where buttons and key text are located on a website.

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