Creative Digital Design Professional
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Combine creative and technical skills to bring stunning digital concepts to life.
Overview
As a Creative Digital Design Professional, you’ll need technical skills and a creative flair to succeed in a career in creative digital design.
From computer games and apps, to websites and movie special effects, you’ll be creating digital graphics and animations that bring products and concepts to life.
Depending on the industry you work in you could work across a variety of mediums. If you work for a web design company, you’ll likely spend your days working in PhotoShop and DreamWeaver, creating web pages, while if you’re working for an animation studio, you might design and animate characters.
You’ll work alongside artists and illustrators in the conceptualisation phase and will usually be responsible for creating templates and mock-ups to review with artists before submitting the finished product.
Generally, you’ll provide digital images for new projects, but you may also have to improve existing graphics and images.
For creative digital designers who are involved in game or video production, you’ll need to conduct usability tests on animated projects, looking out for any flaws or issues in the designs and make corrections and improvements to enhance user experience.
Top 5 Tasks
- Generate high-quality graphics and computer animations
- Design and create prototypes and mock-ups
- Make necessary improvements to existing graphics
- Test designs for usability and quality
- Create 3D and 2D designs.
Salary
The average Creative Digital Designer salary is around £30,000 in the UK.
Am I Suited?
- Technically-minded
- Creative
- Excellent communicator
- Team player
- Organised
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Qualifications
You’ll typically need a bachelor’s degree in a related field such as graphic design or interactive design.
