“My informal research among non-designers did not return any negative associations to the word. Participant – or better, the verb participate – has very positive connotations.” (Dirk Knemeyer – Thread Inc.)

“The three reports concerning the possible tile damage on the Columbia prepared by the Boeing engineers have become increasingly important as the investigation has developed. The reports provided the rationale for NASA officials to curtail further research (such as photographing the Columbia with spy cameras) on the tiles during the flight. Here is a close analysis of an important slide from a Boeing report.” (Edward Tufte – Ask ET Forum) – courtesy of xblog

“(…) chapters explaining verbo-visual communication, information and message design principles, design processes, and design tools.” (Rune Pettersson – John Benjamins) – courtesy of beth mazur

“Information design is about the organization of the content and the architectural shell that holds it.” (MONKEYmedia, Inc.) – courtesy of erin malone

“(…) developing effective methods and computer-supported representations for capturing, maintaining and re-using records of why designers have made the decisions they have. The challenge is to make the effort of recording rationale worthwhile and not too onerous for the designer, but sufficiently structured and indexed that it is retrievable and understandable to an outsider trying to understand the design at a later date.” (Simon Buckingham Shum – Knowledge Media Institute)

“Knowledge can be understood as interpreted content, available to a member of a community and always shaped by a particular context. Digital representations of content and context become e-knowledge through the dynamics of human engagement with them. The digital elements of e-knowledge can be codified, combined, repurposed, and exchanged. Knowledge is both a thing and a flow, shifting between explicit and implicit states and between different meanings in different contexts.” (Donald M. Norris, Jon Mason and Paul Lefrere)

“(…) if we wish to remain critical viewers of the news media in the midst of this image-driven, converging media landscape, we must develop equally sophisticated visual literacy skills.” (Kate Brigham – mfa thesis) – courtesy of xblog

“The ‘processed book’ is about content, not technology, and contrasts with the ‘primal book’; the latter is the book we all know and revere: written by a single author and viewed as the embodiment of the thought of a single individual.” (Joseph J. Esposito – First Monday 8.3)

by Paul Kahn, Krzysztof Lenk, and Piotr Kaczmarek; published in the ‘Information Design Journal, Vol. 1 No. 3 2002’ (Kahn and Associates)

“Broader. Deeper. Richer. Demanding that the world shift to meet it. That is what Information Design is all about.” (Dirk Knemeyer – Thread Inc.)

“You know you’re in design hell when you see “Best viewed with…” — surest sign of an incompetent web designer.” (Eric S. Raymond)

“This week the focus moves toward the more formal and direct application of Information Design in an immersive, professional setting, mindful of our general premise that Information Design is the meta discipline for business.” (Dirk Knemeyer – Thread Inc.)

“Among the goals of good information design, maximizing local usability is not the highest (…) More important is the quality, relevance, and integrity of the content; making high-resolution comparisons; showing process, mechanism, dynamics, causality, explanation; and capturing in our displays some of the multivariate complexity of the world we seek to understand.” (Ask Edward Turfte Forum) courtesy of tremendo

What the Internet is and how to stop mistaking it for something else. (David Weinberger & Doc Searls)

“(…) the culprit is an absence of a true understanding of the people who will ultimately use the product.” (Steve Calde – Cooper)

“This essay outlines these qualities so you, as an information system manager, can incorporate them into your products and services.” (Eric Lease Morgan – Infomotions) – courtesy of lucdesk

“Considering that every human activity depends – to some degree – on information, Information Design provides a level of structure and foundation to almost everything.” (Dirk Knemeyer – Thread Inc.)

“(…) because it was badly designed and massively over-hyped.” (Gerry McGovern)

Chapter 2: Flow in Web Design (Web Reference) – courtesy of webword

“While the basics are very simple – create information that achieves maximum effectiveness by balancing the correct content with the best aesthetics – successfully accomplishing it is something else entirely.” (Dirk Knemeyer – Thread Inc.)