Monday, March 17, 2008

Information/Instructional Design

Definition:
Information Design can be regarded as an attempt to create order out of chaos. It can be described as natural, and it refers to the visual method of explaining and interpreting complex information and data to help the user achieve a particular object.

Information Design:
1. Develops documents that are comprehensible, rapidly and accurately retrievable and easy to translate.
2. Designs inteactions with equipment, that are easy and natural.
3. Enables people to find their way around.

Information Designers have combined skills which derieve from many different sources to come up with the designs that we see today. Todays designers generally think about the ability of users to access information, the ability of users to understand the information, and the ability of users to feel comfortable with the presentation of the information.

Examples:
- Maps
- Graphs & Display of other complex data



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