I learned a lot of valuable design tips during my time spent in this class. Learning about the four principles of design in the first week was helpful for what was to come in the following weeks. I really enjoyed working in Dreamweaver and In Design. I feel as a Public Relations and advertising major, this class should be a mandatory course requirement. Knowledge and proficiency of the Adobe Suit products is going to be a requirement for many of the jobs students are hoping to acquire upon graduation. Not having a basic knowledge of the programs will truly hinder a student’s chance of securing a job.
I thought we moved at a nice pace when dealing with Dreamweaver and In Design. Both of these programs take some getting used to, however, once you understand the basic concepts is easy to excel from there. However, I thought more time in Photo Shop would have been nice. Especially since so many of us were using this program to insert photos onto our websites. With little experience in this program, it made fairly simple task extremely difficult and time consuming.
Many of the assignments where fun and useful, I personally enjoyed the dessert card and building the website. These assignments allowed me to get the most familiar with the programs that I think will benefit me the most in my professional development. However, I absolute loathed the BUI and the PowerPoint assignments. The reasoning behind this hatred stems from the fact that I am already capable of using Word and PowerPoint, at this point in a college career, I think all students are or should be very familiar with these programs. Therefore, I simply found those assignments to be unproductive.
Overall, despite the horrendous hour of this class, I enjoyed it. I now have a foundation in programs that I will be using frequently in my future, and believe I am proficient enough in them to please a future employer. My only suggestion for the class— maybe spend only a day on Word and PowerPoint (if that), this way more time can be spent in the programs such as Dreamweaver and In Design.