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7. CONCLUSION
Multimedia
is a collection of instances in which digital media is used in the delivery
of communication solutions. Although each instance has its own specialised
language derived from members of the team who belong to an established
discipline, there is a common language emerging from the interaction of
clients and designers, using the production of a digital product as the
base.
This common
language helps the designer become a better communicator, and therefore
understand the needs of the client better, deliver a more effective product
and bring the standards of the digital design profession to higher grounds.
This thesis
attempts to document existing methods of visual communication, in a bid
to formalise these conventions and to prompt a forum of discussion where
new and improved methods may emerge. The result is a collection of diagrams
and visual methodology by no means authoritative, but useful as a guideline
of approaches for the clear portrayal of complexity and clear communication
amongst information users.
The emergence
of this visual language is dotted with elements from other disciplines.
Concepts, diagrams and visual representations have been borrowed, adapted,
mutated, hacked, conceived and engineered as a result of interactions
with existing elements. Theatre, architecture, music, fashion, computer
science, marketing, education, have together contributed to better notation,
better diagrams, better ways of doing things in the digital, interactive
environment.
Digital technology
is at the heart of multimedia, and its uses are continuously changing
at a maddening pace. Emerging standards in communication design that are
useful now may be obsolete tomorrow. It is important that we continuously
revise the way we do things, and always look for better ways of delivering
our services as Designers. As a professional community, multimedia designers
need to share this information to avoid spending time and effort re-inventing
the wheel. We need to encourage collaboration and the exchange of information
that will make this a strong community with a solid base. New generations
of designers will use today's body of experience as a jumping platform
into amazing new forms of communication we can only dream of.
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