Whether your ambition is to become a professional designer or not, also for students of information science and computer science, a course in visual design is a must, I think.

In this chapter, we will treat various aspects of digital content creation. The first section discusses how to approach visual design and gives a number of basic design assignments, that can be used to get experience with visual design. Section 2 discusses the issue of workflow and tools, and investigates how design fits in with the process of developing multimedia applications. In the final section, I will elaborate on a theatre project I was involved in, for which I had to develop an augmented reality application.