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2.3.1 Information Design
Solving
any
communication needs is an essential design task for
product. Information design addresses ways to organize
and present information in a meaningful and useful form.
It includes the information in all media (whether textual,
aural, or visual) and, to some degree their interaction.
Where graphic design is primarily concerned with creating
a beautiful visual arrangement of information, information
design is concerned with creating a clear, accurate, and
meaningful arrangement of information. This is not to say
that graphic design and information design are necessarily at
odds. In the best case, information can be both attractive
and meaningful,
and succeed from both standpoints.
Information design can affect the color, layout, sequence,
and styles of any media, but it is most concerned with the
organization of all elements in an entire product. The
organization affects the communication of those elements.
For example, reorganizing all of the words in a dictionary
by order of everyday use instead of alphabetical order
would change how a user might search for words or make
associations. Visual dictionaries use pictures and scenes to
allow users to find a word for something they can identify by
sight. A thesaurus groups words by similar or opposing
meanings. Each solution solves a particular need.
In the book Information Anxiety by Richard Saul Wurman
identifies five general ways to organize any information:
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