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About InfoDesign

• Mission statement

This site provides information designers with up-to-date information and communication facilities on aspects of the growing field of Information Design. Its main objective is to collect, structure and disclose relevant resources.

• Definitions of Information Design

Information design is concerned with making information accessible and usable to people.

David Sless - 1990

 

Information design can be hard to define, because it is an interdisciplinary approach which combines skills in graphic design, writing and editing, illustration, and human factors. Information designers seek to combine skills in these fields to make complex information easier to understand.

Information Design Association - 199..

 

Information design is the intentional process in which information related to a domain is transformed in order to obtain an understandable representation of that domain.

Peter J. Bogaards - 1994

 

Information design is the defining, planning, and shaping of the contents of a message and the environments it is presented in with the intention of achieving particular objectives in relation to the needs of users.

ID News - 199..

 

Information design helps explain things and uses language, typography, graphic design, systems and business process improvement as its key tools. Information design is focused on users and is committed to using usability and other research and testing to find out whether its products actually achieve their objectives.
Text Matters - 1996

 

Information design is the art and the science of presenting information so that it is understandable and easy to use: effective, efficient and attractive.

Information Design Journal - 2000

 

Information design is the art and science of preparing information so that it can be used by human beings with efficiency and effectiveness.

Robert Horn - 1995

 

Information architecture produces the Communications paradigm for Internet strategies.

Annie Archbold, Ph.D. - Information Architect (USWeb) 1998