Information design
Information design in the broadest sense is the selection, organization and presentation of information.
This information could come from any possible source. Ideally, this information is prepared in an understandable, effective and target group-oriented manner. Richard Saul Wurman, founder of the TED conferences , sees the designer as an information architect. Forms of representation or images are designed that show relationships at a glance and, under certain circumstances, enable understanding beyond language and knowledge boundaries. Information designers are “transformers” who can represent data, actions or processes in an understandable model. The term “transformer = transformer” was defined by Otto Neurath , an Austrian philosopher, social scientist and founder of Isotype (International System of Typographical Picture Edition). Together with the graphic artist Gerd Arntz, he presented statistical data in the form of graphs, which provided the viewer with easily understandable information.
Information design is related to various disciplines - from graphic design to computer science to psychology . The field for the design of information has expanded with the development of media from printed works to interactive applications on the Internet and even sensory information spaces. Nathan Shedroff, one of the first to describe himself as an information designer, coined the expanded concept of information-interaction design.
Basics
The frequent use of numerous technical devices has become commonplace for many people in the world. You have to process a lot of information in a very short time and adapt to new facts. This can lead to information overload . Topics from perceptual psychology play an important role here.
"Information design is defined as the art and science of preparing information so that it can be used by human beings with efficiency and effectiveness."
"Information design is defined as the art and science of information processing so that this information can be used by people with efficiency and effectiveness."
“Efficient” and “effective” are the key words that one of the founders of this new discipline emphasizes as the most important characteristics of good information presentation.
Information design is also seen as an integrator between the individual disciplines of information technology.
The strictly logical mathematical presentation of information does not correspond to the human perception and processing of information . In contrast, z. B. the representation using Chernoff faces well adapted to human perception.
Education
Information design is available at some universities as an independent course or as a focus of a design course.
- Berlin Technical College of Art - information and interface design
- Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle - Information Design (can be selected as a focus in the Communication Design course ( Bachelor of Arts ) and in the Visual Strategies and Stories course (MA))
- Danube University Krems - Information Design (MA), Short Programs: Information Design (AE), Information Design (CP)
- Münster University of Applied Sciences - Information design
- University of Applied Sciences Potsdam - interface design
- University of Applied Sciences Vorarlberg - InterMedia
- University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt - Communication Design (BA), Information Design (MA)
- FH JOANNEUM Graz - Information Design ( BA )
- Augsburg University of Applied Sciences - information design / infographics (selectable as a focus (subject class) in communication design (BA))
- Stuttgart Media University - Information Design
- Schwäbisch Gmünd University of Design - interaction design and communication design
- Basel School of Design and Art - Visual Communication
- University of Design Würzburg - Information design and communication design (Master)
- University of the Arts Bremen - Integrated Design: People and Information
- Berlin University of Technology and Economics - communication design / information design
- Muthesius University of Art and Design Kiel - Interactive Information Design (master's focus in communication design)
- School for Design Ravensburg - Communication Design / Information Design
- Berlin University of the Arts - Class of Designing Visual Systems (BA / MA) at the Institute for Transmedia Design
- Zurich University of the Arts - Visual Communication (Bachelor) / Visual Systems (Master)
- University of Merseburg - Information Design and Media Management (MA)
- Rhein-Waal University of Applied Sciences - Information & Communication Design (Bachelor (in English))
- Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences - Department of Design; (Information design, information design - selectable in Communication Design (BA))
See also
- Visualization
- visual communication
- Interface design
- Information visualization
- Corporate information design
- Graphic design
Web links
- Information design: The understanding Discipline ( Memento from October 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- Information design: a brief introduction
Individual evidence
- ^ Neurath, Otto: Collected Bildpädagogische Schriften - Volume 3. ed. By R. Haller and R. Kinross, Vienna, Verlag Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1991, p. 343.
- ↑ Thwaits, Hal: Visual Design in Three Dimensions, in: Jacobsen, Robert: Information Design, Cambridge and London, The MIT Press Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999, p. 264
- ↑ Communication design. Retrieved December 17, 2019 .
- ↑ Visual Strategies and Stories. Retrieved December 17, 2019 .
- ^ University of Design in Würzburg
- ↑ Interactive media at the Muthesius Kunsthochschule Kiel ›Muthesius Kunsthochschule. Retrieved June 21, 2017 .