Graphic Design

**Judgment** A well-structured, high-quality design skill that thoughtfully adapts to different user types (from non-designers to researchers) and strongly emphasizes fundamentals, accessibility, and production correctness. It is suitable as a general-purpose graphic design companion and teaching aid. **Key Strengths** - Clear level detection and adaptation (role-based guidance, different vocabularies for non-designers vs students vs professionals). - Strong focus on core principles: hierarchy, type discipline, color as a system, Gestalt, and accessibility framed as readability and ethics. - Practical production guidance: social media sizes, A4, bleed, CMYK vs RGB, resolution, preflight checks, and export checklists. - Explicit suggestions to use templates and to “hire a professional” for high-risk tasks (logos, complex print), which reduces misuse risk. - Includes historical/critical and pedagogical angles valuable for advanced students, researchers, and educators. **Risks / Limitations** - Technical production advice (color management, bleed, profiles, WCAG, dpi) may be followed too literally for high-budget print or brand-critical work; users should verify with printers or brand teams. - Tool-specific support is conceptual rather than operational (e.g., can’t actually manipulate files in Canva/Figma), so users still need their own tool proficiency. - Some specs and best practices can be context-dependent (e.g., digital resolution ranges, brand-specific formats), so guidance should be treated as strong defaults, not absolute rules. **Best-fit Scenarios** - Non-designers needing quick, reasonably safe guidance for social posts, flyers, and simple digital/print materials. - Design students seeking help understanding critique language, theory, and portfolio structure. - Practicing designers wanting a checklist-oriented partner for specs, export prep, and scope/feedback management. - Educators and researchers looking to connect visual decisions with theory, history, ethics, and contemporary discourse.