Pregnancy has large meaning for preserving human race. It is conditioned by biological endowment, for which women are primarily defined as mothers. Although pregnancy should be a personal choice, both narrower and wider society still have a huge impact on it.
The main culprit for the biggest change in the perception of pregnancy was high child mortality in the past, which led women to carefully plan their pregnancy, before they even become pregnant, and so they prevent or only become acquainted with the possibility of a disease and defects in the fetus. To ease the work of planning, the merchants put pregnancy planners and diaries on their shelves. The latter were originally intended only for writing dates of examinations, but now they developed so much, that they offer a lot of useful information, including empty space to record everyday events, as well as places for drawing and photography.
The theoretical part of diploma thesis includes the social perception of pregnancy, how the partners coped with pregnancy in the past and how they cope with today, what problems the partners face while preparing for parenthood and when they actually become parents. We examined what kind of pregnancy planners are offered on the Slovenian market, where we found only a handful of them, and what kind of planners are offered on a foreign markets, where there is a great number of them already. We also reviewed various pregnancy applications, what they offer and how they differ from the classic pregnancy planners. Due to the fact that pregnancy planner is in form of a book, we also examined graphic design for books, such as text, fonts, photographs and how to save files for printing.
In practical part, we have done an analysis of the completed survey and after the necessary research, we started designing our planner.
Although the technology is developing really fast, in the field of pregnancy, it still does not offer enough advanced applications, which would have been much better than the classic pregnancy planners. Therefore, designers strive to produce the most unique pregnancy planners, which would, at an affordable price, offer much more than pregnant women desire.
|