questions, questions, and more questions

My responses to all the questions recently asked on the blog page.

Visual Design:
1. The language of design is the use of important 'keywords' that trigger instant understanding or insight in a designer.
2. Design elements are: space, line, color, shape, texture, form, value
3. Design principles are: balance, gradiation, repetition, contrast, harmony, dominance, unity
4. It depends on the customer. Some like an elegant, curvy design, while some like a technical looking square design, and color and balance also play a large role.
5. Because most often products that are spent time on and money on and have been worked on for a long time are usually made to look nice as well.
6. The gestalt principles focus more on the way that humans percieve an object or picture, less with what is actually in the picture.
7. graphic design has to do more with the way that an image is conveyed through a product or drawing, a perfect example is ads. product design has to do with functoin as well, whereas a ad doesn't really do anything.
8/9. demographic research is important because to sell something you need to know who you are selling it to.
10. Design principles put the product out there and allow it to get noticed, or covered by media. being unique helps these products along.

Reverse Engineering:
1. To know how something can function properly we need  to take it apart, and understand the entirety of a product.
2. Visual=advertising Functional=purpose