ABSTRACT

Information Design provides citizens, business and government with a means of presenting and interacting with complex information. It embraces applications from wayfinding and map reading to forms design; from website and screen layout to instruction. Done well it can communicate across languages and cultures, convey complicated instructions, even change behaviours. Information Design offers an authoritative guide to this important multidisciplinary subject. The book weaves design theory and methods with case studies of professional practice from leading information designers across the world. The heavily illustrated text is rigorous yet readable and offers a single, must-have, reference to anyone interested in information design or any of its related disciplines such as interaction design and information architecture, information graphics, document design, universal design, service design, map-making and wayfinding.

part |2 pages

Part 1 Historical perspectives

chapter 4|24 pages

Ship navigation

chapter 10|14 pages

Moral visualizations

part |2 pages

Part 2 Theoretical approaches

part |2 pages

Part 3 Cognitive principles

chapter 19|16 pages

Icons as carriers of information

chapter 21|12 pages

Diagrams

chapter 23|14 pages

Designing auditory alarms

chapter 26|8 pages

Contrast set labelling

chapter 27|10 pages

Gestalt principles

chapter 28|16 pages

Information design research methods

chapter 30|14 pages

Public information documents

part |2 pages

Part 4 Practical applications

chapter 31|8 pages

Choosing type for information design

chapter 32|16 pages

Indexing and information design

chapter 34|18 pages

Wayfinding perspectives

chapter 35|14 pages

Designing for wayfinding

chapter 37|8 pages

Park at your peril

chapter 38|16 pages

Indoor digital wayfinding

chapter 39|14 pages

Visualizing storyworlds

chapter 42|16 pages

Information design & value