What has the class covered?

This week we have looked deeply into understanding the meaning and importance of different illustrations that have began to be used in the new UI’s and how they create an impact on the audience through their ability to express emotions to the users, but also how the illustrations are able to communicate information to the user faster than original written text.

We have also learnt that illustrations in this industry are beginning to be used more often where suitable to make the interface more detailed but more interesting at the same time, as this attention to detail will attract our users and audience.

What have I learnt?

Each week I am learning more and more on different aspects and importance of user experience when it comes to the shown designs, although illustration has always been important even for me within applications that I have used or am using currently such as Uber.

Illustrations have allowed me to process information faster and understand certain rules or guidelines in a simple visual informative way. Therefore digging into more research on different types of illustrations such as Thematic illustrations and Hyper realistic, was extremely exciting as it has been around me and the apps I use all this time without me knowing the true value of it and importance of it being exposed to me, that is why I have been attracted to these apps.