Talking about Digital Design (2)

That is, in the last decades of the 20th century, another such "wood box" was placed before us. It is the emergence and perfection of digital technology, digital theory and computer technology. It makes another wonderful change in the design field. Computer-aided design, computer-aided drawing, and space designers re-depicted the world in a virtual space. Create 3D. With a click of the mouse or a few keyboard strokes, we get a wide range of brushes, almost any color we can imagine, simple operations to achieve the work of the past few months, of course, there is a rapid copy And send. The inspiration and creativity that exist in people's minds can be presented more quickly and more realistically. In the past, when we were to modify the design of the design, it may mean to start again. And now with the high-speed central processing unit (CPU), huge memory can help our tangible design freeze down permanently. With the creation of the network, digital technology transforms our tangible design into a light stream that transmits light without weight. Information is transmitted at high speeds across various communication protocols, allowing your designs to be quickly transmitted throughout the world. It was learned from the report a few days ago that the emergence of three-dimensional digital scanning technology has made rapid modeling possible. Once again, digitalization has greatly promoted the design field. All this is rooted in the "digital-to-analog conversion" (conversion circuit technology between digital and analog) in digital circuits, but if you see the original conversion circuit transforming some sinusoidal waveforms into a sawtooth wave era It is not how it is linked to digital design. All this shows that as technology continues to deepen, it feels like the technology seems to be getting far away from us. Here, we need to mention some personal points of view. If we consider that the education methods and the corresponding knowledge structures of relevant parties in China are relatively behind the international level, we have understood the design for a relatively long period of time. Inaccurate and in-depth, many concepts still remain in the "arts and crafts" stage. Unconsciously, we ignore the important technical elements of the design (of course, at the same time industrial design will also ignore the composition of art). Thus, to a certain extent, a sense of distance from the design relative technology is produced. In fact, from the perspective of the world, there are many outstanding modern designers who also come from the technical talents. I remember seeing a feature film introducing international digital animation design once: "In the future, perhaps a computer expert is an animation master, and an artist may also be a successful computer engineer."

As technology continues to grow, the importance of technology is increasingly recognized and valued. Can someone ask whether design will eventually be replaced by technology? Is design technology a downright technical product when technology is strong enough? It is possible that one day we will invent a supercomputer with a few gigabytes of memory that handles n gigabytes of memory, letting it do its own design.

This is absolutely impossible. Do not expect this day to come. As far as the design itself is concerned, it still has its own strong independence. The broad meaning of the design mentioned in the design includes the creative thinking in the artist's mind. Therefore, some people have defined the design as "a brewing in the mind, depicting the result in the imagination, and being able to make it a reality through practice." Here we can clearly see that the technology is in the process There are only a few parts that can be involved, and the core still rigorously indifferent to the wisdom of human beings depends on the human pursuit of harmony. Even digital design is ultimately a design. Technology will not replace it. Just like the gestation of wonderful poems will always be said, the birth of beautiful words and sentences is due to the production of words or the invention of a typewriter. Technology is a means in which it is an increasingly advanced tool. It has brought us new possibilities, prompting us to have more opportunities to inspire and achieve them more easily, but ultimately we must grasp these wonderful ideas and rely on people’s own efforts. Think this is where the design really matters. It is also the technology itself that cannot help you.

From a historical point of view, some people say that “when the primitive man struck another stone with a stone to create a tool, the design naturally occurred at this moment.” Since the beginning of civilization, mankind has been pursuing It. For the first time in Mesopotamian Asia from 3000 BC, they used an embossed seal to mark the pottery. In the long history of the past, those designers known as “craftsmen” or “craftsmen” endured the society. From the low status to the establishment of design science at the end of the 19th century, the design was truly scientific. Until today's design theories were perfected, a variety of outstanding designs were recognized worldwide and respected by people (of course, some In some places, things are not satisfactory.) No matter what the era, those creations have not stopped the tireless pursuit. Different eras have produced large-scale designers, which also shows that as a distinctive feature of designers, no matter what kind of environment, under what conditions, designers must always be creators and make unremitting efforts. To find the most harmonious form of existence, chase the footsteps toward perfection. Nothing can stop them. These are enough facts to prove that the design itself will never be replaced by technology.

When it comes to this, there is a real problem that has emerged. The rapid improvement of technology and the continuous development of new tools have enabled designers today to have conditions that designers have never had in decades or even years before. They have used sophisticated brushes, endless colors, varied canvases, many unprecedented creative techniques, and various auxiliary tools to make selection complicated and numerous. These undoubtedly inspired designers' enthusiasm and gave them new inspiration and excitement. But at the same time it also caused them some external disturbances, which is easy to confuse them. I think Photoshop is not unfamiliar to us. It is one of the commonly used graphic and graphic design software, and it can be said to be a very famous one, but remember that when you first saw the numerous filters and effects, An overwhelmed feeling suddenly surrounded me (perhaps due to the limited level of my own, it would not be so good, as soon as I see foreign advanced software, I feel dizzy, but this is indeed my true feeling). Faced with a variety of tools and a large number of features, the selectivity becomes very much. How can we “brighten our eyes” and quickly find what we need to achieve our desired goal in the shortest possible time, and complete our design in the shortest possible time? This should have become a digital designer should have a basic skills. I personally believe that the complex digital design includes a complex hierarchy of logic. Means that the same result is not necessarily achieved by the same method, and the same effect structure is not necessarily composed of exactly the same element. Therefore, this poses higher requirements for designers. While paying attention to the effect and overall performance, it is necessary to pay attention to the essential technical details of various phenomena. It is important to be good at finding out and summing up the findings, and to find a reasonable solution. The increasing selectivity of ever-increasing technology will not be as overwhelming as I was at the time. Of course, the best way to avoid blindness is to seize the essence of design (mentioned earlier) in order to prevent losing itself in the rapid development of technology. Just as in the age of information explosion, we must pay more attention to the quality of information itself and avoid the overwhelming information waste in the information age.

So to say the relationship between digital design and digital technology should be that the technology always supports the completion of the design, and continuously promotes the development of the design. In turn, what effect does the design have on technology? This sounds familiar to you, and it often appears during the student's argument, but the truth is a bit good. Obviously, the in-depth development of the design will face various needs. New demands will surely be fed back and become an objective reference for the direction of technological research and development. Now many software developers pay great attention to designing user demand information. The direct purpose here is of course for the sales of their own products, but it can also be seen that the technical researcher attaches great importance to the needs of the design user. After all, it cannot be used or Unusual technology is worthless. Didn't that have happened to "inappropriate inventions" that didn't consider demand in history?

The last thing to mention is a member of the ranks of digital designers—web designers. The last mention does not mean that they are insignificant, regardless of the tool technology used in the design itself or the relevance of the “funny stuff” on the Internet. From a technical point of view, the digitization that web designers are exposed to should be relatively complicated and varied. Their design is also unprecedented in terms of space, and at the same time, their work can involve other digital design fields. Under such conditions, as a web designer may face more pressure and challenges, I remember that a colleague who worked as a web designer once jokingly stated that she needs to list out the technology she needs now. She said that she must be long. The scary, so that people do not want to see designers again. Of course, this is somewhat exaggerated, but it cannot be said that there is no basis. While stress and challenge also mean more opportunities and broader design space, I think "space" is very important to designers, and it is encouraging enough to look at it. Judging from the status quo, our design and international web page design are still very far away. The use of blending technologies of various types of design is still relatively elementary, but we should believe that in the digital era where we will continue to continue We must continue to make progress. There will be a lot of outstanding designers in our side, and they must be able to shine like the predecessors who can set an example.