ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a historical context, a look at where information design is today, and where it may be going-information design in motion. It is part bibliographic essay and part speculation. The chapter explores that the people tends to derive solutions to problems based on their background. Information designers interested in web design need to communicate more with their information architecture peers and provide their own models for usable design. The Information Design Journal (IDJ) has been reorganized under the editorial leadership of Piet Westendorp and Karel van der Waarde and published by John Benjamins in Amsterdam. The content is now organized around a section of articles that is theme-based and a section of articles related to a recent information design conference. Our position has been that the field of information design applies traditional and evolving design principles to the process of translating complex, unorganized, or unstructured data into valuable, meaningful information.
