What is the difference between web design and graphic design?
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I haven’t really thought this through, but graphic design is a broad and nebulous term that involves using the various elements of design and typography to convey information.
Web design is a subset of graphic design that focuses primarily on the user interface of websites.
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With big generic questions like this, I suspect a test question.
Or a troll.
Or it could be some lame professor’s attempt at giving students questions to ask in forums in a lame attempt to start a lame conversation they are too lazy to adjudicate in class themselves.
The OP should tell us what they think it is.
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Web design is interactive, graphic design is static
You click a button, navigate through various webpages, there may even be motion graphics and videos on a webpage. Graphic design is less interactive. You can look at it, touch it, but it doesn’t change when you interact with it.
They are both two dimensional in space but Web design adds the dimension of time. When you click this, something happens. When you click that, something else happens. You need to get your head around that.
Read Just B’s post above. That is the answer.
Besides,
Graphic design isn’t necessarily static. Digital billboards, for instance, are not web design. You can’t interact with them but they do often act as video (where zoning laws permit)
Museum educational interactives aren’t web design either, but you interact with them in various ways, the most common analog example being the ‘flip panel’ or lift-and-drop. Sure there are computer kiosk type ‘games’ for a more immersive experience but graphic design is heavily integrated into those to engage the theme of the overall exhibit.
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