Edited by Robert Jacobson
SUMMARY: Information design contains contributions of 16
leading practitioners and scholars who define the
field, explore its theoretical and practical
foundations, and discover how best to systematize and
teach information design. Information design is both
a how-to and a deeper investigation of the meaning
and importance of information design.
CONTENTS:
Foreword (Richard Saul Wurman)
Preface (Robert Jacobson)
1. Introduction: why information design matters
(Robert Jacobson)
Section 1: Theoretical foundations of information design
2. Information Design: The emergence of a new profession
(Robert E. Horn)
3. Chaos, order, and sense-making: a proposed theory for
information design (Brenda Dervin)
4. Human-centered design (Mike Cooley)
5. Sign-posting information design (Romedi Passini)
Section 2: The practice of information design
6. The uniqueness of individual perception (Roger Whitehouse)
7. Information design in informal settings: museums and other
public spaces (Chandler Screven)
8. Graphic tools for thinking, planning, and problem solving
(Yvonne M. Hansen)
9. Visual design in three dimensions (Hal Thwaites)
10. Collaborative information design: Seattle's modern odyssey
(Judy Anderson)
Section 3: Designing for the technologies of information
11. Information interaction design: a unified field theory of
design (Nathan Shedroff)
12. Interactivity and meaning
(Sheryl Macy, Elizabeth Anderson, John Krygier)
13. The role of ambiguity in multimedia experience
(Jim Gasperini)
14. Sculpting in zeros and ones (Steve Holtzmann)
15. Personal reflections on the development of cyberspace
(Simon Birrell)
Epilogue
16. Rationalizing information representation (Jef Raskin)
Contributors
Index
Hardcover, 373 pages
Price: USA $ 35
Published: July 1999
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0 262 10069X
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