Final Thoughts

This class felt like a giant semester-long workshop. Since I had no prior experience with InDesign, Photoshop, or Illustrator, I had to learn how to use the programs just from making mistakes. This was frustrating at times, but I think it ultimately benefited me because it really helped me learn. If I messed up and spent and hour more trying to learn how to fix it, chances are I wasn’t going to make that same technical mistake again. It also helped me learn how to think more creatively through the conceptualization process. The projects were very relevant to the current job market, so I only hope that I can take the skills I learned and apply them to more professional design work in the future.