Information design / edited by Robert Jacobson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jacobson, Robert E., 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication in design.

Communication--Technological innovations.

Communication.

Physical Description:

xvi, 357 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1999]

Summary:

Information design is the newest of the design disciplines. As a sign of our times, when the crafting of messages and meaning is so central to our lives, information design is not only important -- it is essential. Contemporary information designers seek to edify more than to persuade, to exchange more than to foist upon. With ever more powerful technologies of communication, we have learned that the issuer of designed information is as likely as the intended recipient to be changed by it, for better or worse.

The contributors to this book are both cautionary and hopeful as they offer visions of how information design can be practiced diligently and ethically, for the benefit of information consumers as well as producers. They present various methods that seem to work, such as sense-making and way-finding. They make recommendations and serve as guides to a still young but extraordinarily pervasive -- and persuasive -- field.

Contents:

1. Introduction: Why Information Design Matters / Robert Jacobson 1

I Theoretical Foundations of Information Design 11

2. Information Design: The Emergence of a New Profession / Robert E. Horn 15

3. Chaos, Order, and Sense-Making: A Proposed Theory for Information Design / Brenda Dervin 35

4. Human-Centered Design / Mike Cooley 59

5. Sign-Posting Information Design / Romedi Passini 83

II The Practice of Information Design 99

6. The Uniqueness of Individual Perception / Roger Whitehouse 103

7. Information Design in Informal Settings: Museums and Other Public Spaces / C. G. Screven 131

8. Graphic Tools for Thinking, Planning, and Problem Solving / Yvonne M. Hansen 193

9. Visual Design in Three Dimensions / Hal Thwaites 221

10. Collaborative Information Design: Seattle's Modern Odyssey / Judy Anderson 247

III Designing for the Technologies of Information 263

11. Information Interaction Design: A Unified Field Theory of Design / Nathan Shedroff 267

12. Interactivity and Meaning / Sheryl Macy, Elizabeth Andersen, John Krygier 293

13. The Role of Ambiguity in Multimedia Experience / Jim Gasperini 301

14. Sculpting in Zeroes and Ones / Steve Holtzman 317

15. Personal Reflections on the Development of Cyberspace / Simon Birrell 327

16. Rationalizing Information Representation / Jef Raskin 341.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

026210069X

OCLC:

40693279