Truth, Beauty, and the User Interface
Notes on the Aesthetics of Information (Matthew G. Kirschenbaum – Mixed Messages: Images, Text, and Technology 1997)
All posts about
Information design
Information Design Association: IDeAs
“(…) some back issues of the former IDA newsletter” (Conrad Taylor – informationdesign.org)
Information Design using Card Sorting
“The challenge is to organise this information in a way that is useful and meaningful for the users (…)” (James Robertson – Step Two Designs)
Presenting Data and Information
Class Given by Edward Tufte (Terrie Miller – O’Reilly)
The Nature of Information
“Poetry is information fireworks” (Edward M. Housman)
Virtual Classroom Fall 2001
CDES-298c Information Design (Farmland – Frank Armstrong)
Information: Organized
“As we gradually become overwhelmed by digital content, we need to expand our focus to understand how, and why, information is organized.” (Brian K. Smith – MIT Media Lab i:o)
Usable Medicine Information
“What general principles of information design are applicable to designing medicine information for people?” (David Sless – Communication Research Institute of Australia)
Information Design Research Publications
“This new multi-disciplinary field of study trains communicators who can work at the interface between engineering and the natural sciences, the media, the humanities and design.” – (Rune Petterson – Dept. of Information Design and Product Development – Mälardalen University)
International Journal of Design Sciences and Technology
“(…) a multidisciplinary forum dealing with all facets and fields of design” (Ed. R. Beheshti)
Information Design, A Graphic Designer’s Salvation
“(…) information design is often difficult for us to explain even to ourselves” (Roger Whitehouse – Communication Arts)
Knowledge Mapping for the Complex Social Messes
“A presentation to the “Foundations in the Knowledge Economy” at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation” (Robert E. Horn)
Bringing Design to Software
“(…) how to improve the practice of software design, by applying lessons from other areas of design to the creation of software” (Terry Winograd et al. 1996)
Wayfinding Is Not Signage
Signage plays an important part of wayfinding — but there’s more (John Muhlhausen – Signs of the Times)
Information Design is a Peaceful Art
“The following illustrations are examples of this art” (Toby Braun)
Blurb Gallery
“(…) how to display the headlines and summaries” (Victor Lombardi – noise between stations)
Organic Information Design
“(…) this thesis introduces a visualization process” (Benjamin Fry – Aesthetics & Computation Group MIT Media Lab)
What’s in a name
Commentaries and Responses
Inside Information
“(…) it was Claude Shannon who made information into a technical term” (Howard Rheingold‘s Tools for Thought)
Scopeware
“(…) to manage all of your electronic information from one place, turning static data into dynamic intelligence” (Mirror Worlds Technologies, Inc. – David Gelernter et al.)