INFORMATION DESIGN-pp 247-292

Collaborative Information Design: Seattle's Modern Odyssey

What does information design do and more importantly, what role do designers play in the process of communicating information? Or can we design information in a way that actively facilitates the process of communication in the sharing of knowledge, ideas, and emotions?

>first encoded

> then transmitted to reciever

> designer elaborates on the encoded message by giving it form

> and the audience recieves it and interacts with it

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What was the make up of the information teams for the "Modern Odysseys"?

How do you think this influenced the way they delivered information?

What do you think the author meant by "informational designers to contribute to the collaborative process?"

What was the original need of the Seattle Metro Transit, and how was that reinterpreted by the "information team"?

What types of messages did they use, how did they incorporate the audience, what was the various forms and media they used to communicate the message?

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Designing for the Technologies of Information

Does interactivity contain its own meaning? Does the act of interacting tell us something about the nature of communication?

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Information Interaction Design: A Unified Field Theory of Design

The most important skill for almost everyone in the next decade and beyond will be the ability to create valuable, compelling, and empowering infomration and experiences for others. To do this, we must learn established ways of organizing and presenting data and infomration as well as develop new ones.

>Information Design, organization and presentation of data.

>Interaction Design, story creating and storytelling

>Sensorial Design, employment of all techniques we use to communicate to others through the senses.

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Understanding Spectrum–Understanding is a contunuum that leads from data > information > knowledge > wisdom

 

Organizing Things: Alphabets, Locations, Time, Continuums, Numbers, Categories, Randomness

Advanced Organizations: For example men and women are arranged according to the time of their death–Vietnam Memorial in Washington DC is an example of this.

Multiple Organizations: Information that is nested, secondary and tertiary suborganizations–Drop down menus are an example of this.

Other forms of organizing–Metaphors > Goals > Clarity

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Interaction Design> a conversation with another person, some of the source of guidance are storytelling, performance and instructional design.

Continuums of Interactivity from Passive to Interactive> Control and Feedback > Productivity and Creative Experiences > Adaptive Experiences

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Sensorial Design>comprised of the many disciplines involved with the creation and presentation of media experiences.

Designing an interface for any audience experience begins with the creation of meaning and the development of an appropriate type of interactivity.