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October 2004

The Information Designer: Who is He?   Information Design is the ability to arrange, organize, chunk and format information according to a specifically defined audience, timing, medium and message to be conveyed while maintaining the highest degree of access efficiency (legibility, consistency, preservation, compatibility). Information Design is not based on the... read more | cat.: Information Design | Link | TrackbackRobin Good -- October 27

The Information Designer: Who is He?   Information Design is the ability to arrange, organize, chunk and format information according to a specifically defined audience, timing, medium and message to be conveyed while maintaining the highest degree of access efficiency (legibility, consistency, preservation, compatibility). Information Design is not based on the achievement of... read more | cat.: Information Design | Link | TrackbackRobin Good -- October 27

How To Visualize Ideas With Images   Presentations are becoming increasingly visual and less textual. Converting every concept into an image is the challenge and, at the same time, the solution. Presentations with visual support, typically running under PowerPoint, have become ubiquitous. All of us have been at some time in need of... read more | cat.: Information Design | Link | Trackback| Comment Juan Dürsteler -- October 23

Uses Of Colour To Convey Information   Colour is an integral part of most visual representations. In this issue we review the fundamental uses of colour to convey information. Colour is an attribute that is not strictly necessary in order to distinguish shapes or to perceive the real world in a sufficiently operative... read more | cat.: Information Design | Link | Trackback| Comment Juan Dürsteler -- October 19








Uses Of Colour To Convey Information   by Juan C. Dürsteler Colour is an integral part of most visual representations. In this issue we review the fundamental uses of colour to convey information. Colour is an attribute that is not strictly necessary in order to distinguish... read more | cat.: Information Design | Link | TrackbackRobin Good -- October 19

Elegance Through Simplicity   "By keeping goals in mind and design simple, you can achieve elegant, easily understandable data presentations." Experts in any domain tend to lose awareness of the individual steps that they go through to produce their work. As their expertise grows and deepens over time, it becomes... read more | cat.: Information Design | Link | TrackbackRobin Good - Information Design - Infodesign.org -- October 17

Data Presentation: Tapping the Power of Visual Perception   "Why do people respond to some forms of presentation better than others? This instalment of our series sheds light on how physical aspects of vision influence the way we process information -- and ultimately, decision-making itself." (Stephen Few - Intelligent Enterprise Magazine) ... read more | cat.: Information Design | Link | Trackback| Comment Robin Good - Information Graphics - Infodesign.org -- October 14

Visualization - News Channels Are Heating Up   News By Name is a free, non commercial news site with "up to the minute news headlines collected from multiple news channels. Incoming news is automatically scanned for 'names' allowing for charting, archiving and email alerts by name, showing you who's hot and who's last weeks... read more | cat.: Information Design | Link | Trackback| Comment Francis Good -- October 11

Information Design Journal + Document Design 12:1   "(...) a forum for both practitioners and researchers. It aims to enhance design knowledge and practice so that informed design can support people's interactions with printed and electronic materials, whether using verbal text, numbers, pictures, diagrams or other forms of representation. IDJ+DD brings together the variety... read more | cat.: Information Design | Link | Trackback| Comment Robin Good - Information Design - Infodesign.org -- October 3