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Information Design: Presentation by Jean Viera

The document discusses information design, which involves preparing information for effective and efficient human use. It aims to make documents comprehensible, retrievable, and translatable into action. Information design also involves designing user-friendly interactions with equipment. The field of information design uses various forms like typography, pictograms, diagrams, and maps to visually display information. Some key figures in the development of information graphics include Descartes, Playfair, Nightingale, and Neurath. Effective information design considers aspects like layout, labeling, grouping, and technical limitations.

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Information Design: Presentation by Jean Viera

The document discusses information design, which involves preparing information for effective and efficient human use. It aims to make documents comprehensible, retrievable, and translatable into action. Information design also involves designing user-friendly interactions with equipment. The field of information design uses various forms like typography, pictograms, diagrams, and maps to visually display information. Some key figures in the development of information graphics include Descartes, Playfair, Nightingale, and Neurath. Effective information design considers aspects like layout, labeling, grouping, and technical limitations.

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Information

Design
Presentation by Jean Viera
Information design is…

 The the art and science of preparing information


so that it can be used by human beings with
efficiency and effectiveness with the primary
objectives being:
 To develop documents that are
comprehensible, rapidly and accurately
retrievable and easy to translate into effective
action
 To design interactions with equipment that is
easy, natural, and as pleasant as possible
 To enable people to find their way in three-
dimensional space with comfort and ease
 You and me are producers and consumers of
information

 The term “information design” has only been


used for the past 30 years

 the term has come to be used specifically for


graphic design for displaying information
effectively as opposed to attractively or for
artistic expression
Rene Descartes

 Rene Descartes (1596-1650)


 Cartesian coordinate system
William Playfair

 (1759-1823)
 Line graph, bar chart, pie chart,
circle graph
Florence Nightingale

 (1820-1910)

 Credited with inventing the polar


area diagram
Otto Neurath

 (1882-1945)
 Methodology for displaying
pictorial statistics effectively
 Isotype
Different forms of Information
Graphics and Design

 Typographic
 Form design, signing, timetables

 Pictogrammic

 Product interface

 Diagrammatic

 Spatial and Cartographic

 Informative and explanatory


Typographic communication

 Type design has dominated western printed


information

 The basic letterforms of the alphabet and


numerals have remained constant
Form Design

 Forms you fill out when you withdraw money from


the bank or appy for a passport

 The form designer has to think about the user who will
 -take short cuts
 Leave out as much information as possible
 Provide illegible answers

 Patricia Wright who believes there should be better


form design:

“The fundamental cause of bad forms more probably lies


in a failure to appreciate the range of skills required
for achieving a satisfactory design in which so many
conflicting interests have to be reconciled.”
Signing

 One of the more successful uses of


quickly accessible information

 Signing has to be taken in at a single


glance

 Size, contrast and consistency have


led to national and international
formats
Timetable
Pictogrammic

 Pictograms can be assimilated more rapidly and


by a wider audience than verbal signing because
they bypass language barriers

 Pictograms date back to the beginning of time –


who remembers the first presentation on the
invention of beer writing?

 They are better understood when they stand for


the object depicted
 This means restaurant to you… right?

 Good!

 Pictograms are less effective when they are


“meant to” depict the property of an object

 Pictograms are also most often created as a


group
Effective pictograms…
Product Interface

 Operation of appliances or machines

 Graphics and controls are the basic interaction


with the user

 Graphics identify, inform and produce feedback

 Weak product design results in a product that


may have been ergonomically designed well, but
poorly designed graphically due to not planning
both at the same time
When messing with product
interface…

 Grouping of controls is important

 Simple control systems

 Analogue vs. digital

 Technical limitations
Diagrammiatic

 Earliest recorded examples of the graph, bar


chart and pie chart date to the end of the 18th
century

 Basic requirement for any statistical diagram is


the recording of accurate figures over time

 Earliest statistics recorded wages, profits,


imports/exports
Cartographic

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