Information Design

By: Robert Jacobson

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Paperback | 25 August 2000

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Information design is the newest of the design disciplines. As a sign of our times, when the crafting of messages and meaning is so central to our lives, information design is not only important-it is essential. Contemporary information designers seek to edify more than to persuade, to exchange more than to foist upon. With ever more powerful technologies of communication, we have learned that the issuer of designed information is as likely as the intended recipient to be changed by it, for better or worse.

The contributors to this book are both cautionary and hopeful as they offer visions of how information design can be practiced diligently and ethically, for the benefit of information consumers as well as producers. They present various methods that seem to work, such as sense-making and way-finding. They make recommendations and serve as guides to a still young but extraordinarily pervasive-and persuasive-field.

Contributors
Elizabeth Andersen, Judy Anderson, Simon Birrell, Mike Cooley, Brenda Dervin, Jim Gasperini, Yvonne M. Hansen, Steve Holtzman, Robert E. Horn, Robert Jacobson, John Krygier, Sheryl Macy, Romedi Passini, Jef Raskin, Chandler Screven, Nathan Shedroff, Hal Thwaites, Roger Whitehouse

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"A wonderful resource compendium on the diverse landscape ofinformation design. From theory to practice, the book is truly aneffort in the 'design of understanding'" Clement Mok , Chief Creative Officer, Sapient

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Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xv
Introduction: Why Information Design Matters	p. 1
Theoretical Foundations of Information Design	p. 11
Information Design: The Emergence of a New Profession	p. 15
Chaos, Order, and Sense-Making: A Proposed Theory for Information Design	p. 35
Human-Centered Design	p. 59
Sign-Posting Information Design	p. 83
The Practice of Information Design	p. 99
The Uniqueness of Individual Perception	p. 103
Information Design in Informal Settings: Museums and Other Public Spaces	p. 131
Graphic Tools for Thinking, Planning, and Problem Solving	p. 193
Visual Design in Three Dimensions	p. 221
Collaborative Information Design: Seattle's Modern Odyssey	p. 247
Designing for the Technologies of Information	p. 263
Information Interaction Design: A Unified Field Theory of Design	p. 267
Interactivity and Meaning	p. 293
The Role of Ambiguity in Multimedia Experience	p. 301
Sculpting in Zeroes and Ones	p. 317
Personal Reflections on the Development of Cyberspace	p. 327
Epilogue	p. 339
Rationalizing Information Representation	p. 341
Contributors	p. 349
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