Perspectives on design of communication

Abstract

The wide spread of new media developed new ways of communicating. When technical subjects are communicated, either in a user manual, advertisement or in science, the use of new media are becoming even more important. As a consequence, a "communication designer" need new skills. These new skills involve text construction, manipulation of images, sound, video and all the new environments (especially social networks). This is far from the traditional Graphic Designer or Technical Writer learned skills. So, the need of communicating technical issues is broad, it covers a wide range of contexts, from professional to semi-professional contexts. Design of Communication knowledge is also important to other practitioners that are not necessarily "Communication Designers".