Prtish Tandon, Career Counselor

Game designing and graphic design are not the same, but they are related fields that often work together in the game development process. Game designing involves the creation and development of game concepts, mechanics, levels, and overall game structure. It also involves creating and balancing game rules, objectives, and challenges to provide players with an enjoyable experience. Game designers work with game developers, artists, and programmers to bring their ideas to life. Graphic design, on the other hand, involves the creation of visual content to communicate information or ideas to a target audience. This includes the design of logos, posters, packaging, and websites, among other things. Graphic designers often use software such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign to create their designs. While game designers may not necessarily have the same level of expertise in graphic design as a dedicated graphic designer, they do need to have a strong sense of visual design and a good understanding of how graphics and visual elements impact the gameplay experience. Many game designers work closely with graphic designers to ensure that the visual elements of their games support the overall game design. If you're interested in becoming a game designer, it's important to develop a strong foundation in game design principles, as well as an understanding of graphic design principles. This can involve taking courses in game design and graphic design, as well as practicing and honing your skills through personal projects or game design competitions.

UI design stands for User Interface design, which is the visual or graphical side of design. Some UX designers will also do some UI, but other UX designers will only go as far as research and wire frames. Web design tends to be less iterative, whereas UX design is about integrating continuous improvements. UX design stands for User Experience design and tends to be the invisible or behind the scenes side of design. Its all the work that goes into creating an app, website, software, or service. UX design includes design and user research, information architecture, interaction design, usability testing, and content strategy. Web designers may be graphic designers who work on the web or developers who have built enough skills to create a good looking website or app. Web designers tend not to take the human-centered approach of UX design. Psychology is embedded in UX design to help understand how people think, and what motivates them. Most web designers don't go as deep to consider all the factors that a UX designer keeps in mind. Web design tends to be less iterative, whereas UX design is about integrating continuous improvements.

No, it is not true. Still, they are offering the same diploma course in journalism. The Institute conducts a year-long full-time PG Diploma programme in Journalism with the objective of churning out fully-trained journalists and content professionals for leading media organisations - not just in India, but abroad.
The students are selected based on an All-India written examination, which is followed by personal interview at Delhi and other metros. Students can download the form from the website and submit a non-refundable fee for appearing for the exams. They also need to attach copies of relevant certificates with the application form and also answer why they are interested in doing the course.
The programme designed to be a top-of-the-line course, enables students to learn the art of reporting, writing, editing, designing, scripting, programming etc. in its state-of-the-art facilities - which includes a fully-functional news room and a TV studio enabling students to get exposure on all aspects of print publishing, online content systems and TV programming.

Yes dear! Absolutely different they are. While real time project handling is considered the two terms are completely different in scope. Graphic design particularly deals with technologies like Photoshop, Core Draw, Logo designing, Illustrator etc. While you are a graphic designer you shall be asked to actually create a visual view of complete project/website you are working on based on the skeletal idea provided to you through UX team or department. You need to work on setting suitable attractive and accessible to all color combinations for web project, colors for each and every element, creation of a styleguide document, measuring each and every pixel of the web page and placing elements accordingly, setting widths and dimensions of other elements like a box, button etc. Whereas as an interactive designer you obtain all details from a graphic designer in the form of styleguides and PSD files and convert it into HTML, CSS, Bootstrap Query and other relevant technological code that runs as a user interface directly from the machine. Graphic designing is less or rather no code area and interactive designing is a pure code area but both of them hold equal job opportunities and interest in them. Also, with the growing IT advancement, both the fields are expected to gradually merge together into one.
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There are multiple design colleges in India and abroad. Based on your financial strength, you can chose either of it. Studying abroad definitely gives you an exposure of global design spectrum with on-hands experience of being mentored by industries leading professionals and designers. However, it is suggestive to pursue Masters from abroad since by then it will give you a clear road map of what specific specialization you want to explore further. India has some great colleges too for undergrad courses in Graphic Design. Some of those are: NID (Ahmedabad), MIT (Pune), NIFT (Mumbai & Delhi), Pearl Academy (Delhi), Shrishti Institute (Bangalore), SID (Pune), ISDI (Mumbai), DJ Academy of Design (Coimbatore), IDC (Mumbai, only Masters). Abroad: Royal College of Arts (UK), Central Saint Martins (UK), Parsons College (US), School of Visual Arts (US), Rhode Island School of Design (US), Cal Arts (US), Aalto University (Finland).