December 31, 2009
New Media Landscape
On 29th of dec, a special guest from RippleWerkz, Lionel Chin, came to give us speech. Lionel Chin, whos is also a TP student, was a web designer. He started as a freelance designer and throughout the years, he save his money and became the co-founder of RippleWerks. Also, he design a lot of webdite for a lot of companies and celebrities. One of the website that he design was Wendy Cheng’s blog, who was also known as xiaxue.
In his speech, he mention that working world is totally different what we experience in school. In school, the lectures will give you a lot of good advices about your web design. Even you didn’t do well in your website, the most the lecture will give u a fail grade.
However, when your in the working industry, you get a lot of critisim about your work from the client. And also, its a lot stressful in the working industry. In the working industry, not only you will get critisim from the client, also you will meet a lot of competitors in your company and other companies as well. Competition can be found everywhere in the working industry.
In Lionel Chin speech, he mention the price of a web site can be very wide. Probably the starting amount will be a few hundred bucks to ten thousands bucks, or even more. There is a big difference between a hundred dollars web site and a ten thousand web site. A hundred dollars web site will be a normal web site with not much of the editing, but a ten thousand dollars web site will consists of a lot of editing of pictures and animation, flash and more.
He also mention that there are some difference between a freelance web designer and a web desiner working in the company.There will be a difference in the price of the web site and also a different demands from the client. The client will expect and demand more from the web designer working in the company than freelance web designer.
After listening to his speech, I feel that Lionel Chin has work very hard to pursue to be a web designer. From saving money during his ns, to getting lots of critisim and demands from the clients and to start his own business.
