Information design, edited by Robert Jacobson, 2000 Information design: Emergence of a new profession, Robert E. Horn
Information design is defined as the art and science of preparing information so that it can be used by human beings with efficiency and effectiveness. Its primary objetives are:
1. To develop documents that are comprehensive, rapidly and accurately retrievable, and easy to translate into effective action.
2. To design interactions with equipment that are easy, natural, and as pleasant as possible. This involves solving many problems in the design of the human-computer interface.
3. To enable people to find their way in three-dimensional space with comfort and case-especially urban space, but also, given recent developments, virtual space.
Information design, edited by Robert Jacobson, 2000 Information interaction design: A unified fiel theory of design, Nathan Shedroff
There are several aspects to experiences that audiences tend to fell make an experience more interactive. Some of the most important are these six.
“All data problems begin with a question” — Benjamin Fry, Computational information design, 2004
79 Short essays on design, Michael Bierut, 2007
Designers are lucky. As the people who structure much of the world’s communications, we get to vicariously partake of as many fields of interest as we have clients. In a single day, a designer can talk about real estate with one client, cancer cures with another, and forklift trucks with a third. Imagine how tedius it must be for a dentist who has nothing to do all day but worry about teeth.
Information Visualization, Robert Spence 2001
The data will not always be numerical, though much of it is. It can be ordinal, as whith things that are naturally ordered (such as the days of the week), or categorical, such as the names of animals where there is no order (for example, horse, zebra, antelope).
Information design for Advocacy - An introduction to information design, John Emerson, 2008
Here are just a few ways you can use information design:
Tell your story
Analyze your data
Make a plan
Make information visible
Simplify and Clarify
La infografía - Técnicas, análisis y usos periodísticos, José Luis Valero Sancho, 2001
La infografía de prensa tiene un total de ocho características peculiares. Éstas son:
“Information design can help you to discover something new in your data” — Information design for Advocacy - An introduction to information design, John Emerson, 2008
Una breve definición de diseño de información según John Emerson. Information design for Advocacy - An introduction to information design, John Emerson, 2008
Information design uses pictures, symbols, colors, and words to communicate ideas, illustrate information or express relationships visualy.
Effective design is not just a matter of making text pretty or entertaining, but of shaping understanding and clarifyng meaning. Information design adds seeing to reading to make complex data easier to understand and to use. It can hel illustrate complexity, showing relationships between ideas or actors or providing a snapshot of changing systems. It takes many forms and appears in many media. Some familiar forms include charts, graphs, maps, diarams or timelines. These can be big or small, simple or complex, published in print or electronic media.