About InfoDesign: Understanding by Design

'InfoDesign: Understanding by Design' supports the growth and application of information design. Information design helps people and organizations achieve understanding through the creation of relevant, clear and memorable information.

'InfoDesign: Understanding by Design' is dedicated to the growth and improvement of the information and experience industries through the provision of a centralized online resource that serves all interested audiences. Launched in 2004, the site will continually evolve to meet the needs and desires of its participants. 'InfoDesign: Understanding by Design' is a non-profit informational resource.

Testimonials

• "I enjoy InfoDesign ..." (Mark Hurst - Feb. 19, 2004)
• "(...) great new site!" (Uri Kochavi - Feb. 2, 2004)
• "(...) a fantastic web source - and it is so easy to use. By my opinion, this site is the best we've seen. And it's certainly the very best site about information design and related disciplines." (Per Asplund - Jan. 26, 2004)
• "This has some great, great stuff. What a fantastic new site. Good job." (Blog-Fu - Jan. 05, 2004)
• "Please, keep up the good work! Your time and service is truly appreciated and worthwhile." (Karen Tupper - Nov. 24, 2003)
• "Thanks for a brilliant newsletter that I have enjoyed for a couple of years or so." (Bo Madsen - Nov. 23, 2003)
• "Great! I really enjoy your listings. I consider them the very best and most extensive around." (Leo Robert Klein - Nov. 17, 2003)
• "Thanks for such a great site!" (Lemel Williams - Nov. 3, 2003)
• "(...) Peter Bogaards' wonderful InfoDesign site." (Louis Rosenfeld - Oct. 17, 2003)
• "Thanks for all your effort keeping this going." (T. Lynn Stott - Oct. 1, 2003)
• "Your website inspires me!" (Maish Nichani - Sep. 1, 2003)
• "(...) a regular reader of InfoDesign. Keep up the great work." (Shiv Singh - Aug. 26, 2003)
• "(...) thanks for doing InfoDesign. I really rely on it." (Mary Deaton - Aug. 12, 2003)
• "(...) I found your portal very informative and interesting for Information Architects." (Amit Tungare - July 4, 2003)
• "(...) my first outward click of the day." (Thomas vanderWal - July 1, 2003)
• "(...) love the InfoDesign site!" (Katie Moirs - June 18, 2003)
• "(...) great job with the website, it looks very nice." (Israel Denis - May 12, 2003)
• "(...) thank you for InfoDesign - it is a great resource." (Jonathan Jaynes - May 8, 2003)
• "(...) thank you for providing InfoDesign to the IA and graphic design communities, it's become a very important resource for me." (Lee W. Potts - May 4, 2003)
• "Great site, by the way. I've bookmarked it for future reference. Quite a collection of goodies." (Mir Haynes - Apr. 9, 2003)
• "(...) thanks for a great resource." (Dennis G. Jerz - Apr. 7, 2003)
• "You've got a great site!" (Matt Phillips - Mar. 31, 2003)
• "(...) it's one of my favourite sources, big time!" (Javier Cañada - Mar. 14, 2003)
• "Thanks for a useful resource." (Meryl K. Evans - Mar. 4, 2003)
• "It is a wonderful resource; it is my homepage and the first thing that I do every morning is visit the links." (Dirk Knemeyer - Feb. 18, 2003)
• "Some interesting links to information design material. (...) Quite a number of the articles listed are intellectually flabby or devoted to the practice of commercial art, but there are enough intriguing items to justify an occasional look." (Edward Tufte - Oct. 2002)
• "It really is the best portal to information design resources I'm aware of." (Craig Marion - Oct. 2, 2001)
• "It's the first place I look most days." (Beth Mazur - Dec. 7, 2001)
• "I visit InfoDesign daily and am always impressed by the timeliness and quality of the content." (Luke Wroblewski - Nov. 7, 2001)

History

1994 - Yuri Engelhardt starts 'InfoDesign': a moderated mailing list about information design.

1995 - A second (unmoderated) mailing list is started by Yuri Engelhardt: 'InfoDesign-Café'. An editorial team is formed which initially consists of Piet Westendorp and Karel van der Waarde. Karen Schriver, Conrad Taylor and Alan Davis join shortly after.

1997 - Peter J. Bogaards launches the website 'InfoDesign: To surf the community' aiming to be a daily resource for various design-related disciplines.

1999 - Karel van der Waarde takes over from Yuri Engelhardt as list owner and moderator of the InfoDesign and InfoDesign-Café lists. Editors are Alan Davis, Yuri Engelhardt, Karen Schriver, Conrad Taylor and Piet Westendorp.

2000 - A website is set up to accompany and support the mailing lists. Yuri suggests its domain 'InformationDesign.org'. The site is designed by Conrad Taylor.

2004 - 'InfoDesign: To surf the community' and 'InformationDesign.org' merge into a single site: 'InfoDesign: Understanding by Design'. This merger is motivated and supported by Dirk Knemeyer. 'InformationDesign.org' now hosts the InfoDesign weblog, the mailing lists and their archives.

Colophon

'InfoDesign: Understanding by Design' would not have been possible without the valuable contributions from Peter J. Bogaards (content), Paul Jongsma (technology), Dirk Knemeyer (project lead), Ruurd Priester (visual design), Jim Rudolf (technology), Ronald Vendelmans (technology), and Karel van der Waarde (content).