Planning DPT Flashcards
What are thumbnails?
Thumbnails are preliminary graphics. They are first drafts that allow the designer to test out different ideas and layouts for promotional graphics.
What does creating thumbnails allow a designer to do?
- Generate ideas quickly
- Generate a range of ideas.
- Evaluate ideas.
- Share ideas with the client
Why would a designer annotate a thumbnail?
Annotation is used in the preliminary stages to communicate design ideas and design decisions. These simple notes that add information which would take a long time to add graphically to the thumbnails.
Annotations are very helpful when communicating with colleagues or clients and can save time by not having to add too many details such as final colours or pictures.
Advantages of Digital Thumbnails
- Greater accuracy than manual methods.
- Layout tools (snap to grid, etc) increase speed of development.
- Placement and spacing of elements are already in place ready for swapping out to final elements.
- Ease of sharing with client electronically.
Disadvantage of Digital Thumbnails
Takes longer to create than thumbnail sketches
Software to make may be expensive
Advantages of Manual Thumbnails
- Ease of creating many ideas with small amount of resources.
- Can sketch more organic elements with ease.
- Good for when with a client to show design thinking quickly.
- Allows working through a large range of ideas.
Disadvantages of Manual Thumbnails
- Will still need to be created digitally after the initial planning.
- Not as easy to understand for non-graphics specialists.
- Not as accurate as digital thumbnails
