Graphic Artist
- Graphic Artist
- the role that is played when a
person creates or obtains graphic artwork for the user interfaces of one or more related
systems or
applications
As illustrated in the preceding figure, Graphic Artist is part of the following inheritance hierarchy:
The typical role-specific responsibilities of a Graphic Artist are to:
- Elicit graphic artwork needs (e.g., content, size, and partitioning) from their respective users:
- Obtain existing reusable graphic artwork (e.g., from the marketing organization or a vendor over the Web).
- Create new graphic artwork:
- User-Interface software components:
- Website content such as photographs, computer graphics,
scanned physical artwork, and digital (GIF) animations.
- Brand logos and tag-line fonts for digital branding.
- Backgrounds.
- Icons (e.g., buttons and horizontal rules).
- Fancy text as artwork (e.g., as opposed to using simple HTML text).
- Digital brand identity.
- Shrink-rapped product packaging.
- User-oriented documentation (e.g., user manuals or operation manuals).
- Job aids (e.g., posters, keyboard covers).
- Training materials.
- Digitize any physical artwork (e.g., with a high-quality color scanner).
- Format this new graphic content for graphic size (height and width).
- Verify the graphics with their respective users.
- Archive these original artworks including sources, prices, copyrights, etc.
- Optimize the formatted digital graphic artwork for file size and transmission speed by:
- Selecting the MIME type (e.g., GIF, JPEG).
- Determining the size of the color table.
- Setting the JPEG resolution.
- If necessary, partition the optimized graphic artwork
into smaller images to properly fit into the correct cells of
any webpage formatting tables (e.g., to create the illusion
of a single, seamless, impressive background).
- Provide the optimized and partitioned graphic files to their respective users.
Graphic Artist typically inherits the
general role responsibilities from the
Role method component.
To fulfill these responsibilities, a Graphic Artist typically should have the following
personal characteristics,
expertise,
training, and
experience:
A Graphic Artist should typically have the following personal characteristics:
A Graphic Artist typically should have the following expertise:
- An indepth knowledge of content requirements and sources.
- An indepth knowledge of the customer’s products and services.
- Experience using
multimedia tools.
- A bachelor’s degree in graphic arts, marketing, sales, public relations, or the equivalent.
Graphic artists typically perform the following
role-specific tasks in an iterative,
incremental, parallel, and time-boxed manner:
Graphic artists typically inherit
common role tasks from the
role method component.
Graphic artists typically perform these tasks as members of
the following teams:
As members of these teams, graphic artists typically produce
all or part of the following work products:
- Content need not be created from scratch. It may also
come from a content producing system or a legacy content source.
- This role is unnecessary if content management is not a
requirement (e.g., there is no human interface or the human
interface does not contain human produced content).
- This role typically inherits the
common team guidelines from the
roles method component.
