Information design involves integrating numerous disciplines to create effective information. The designer must be able to give data a meaningful visual form while having the skill to understand the underlying technical aspects of the processes involved. This website will feature papers and articles that shed light on the technologies or the 'building blocks' for this discipline.
Information Design, a paper by Eva Pidgeon looks at some definitions of the discipline, its background, practical applications — particularly in relation to web development, and some of the issues and trends facing its practitioners.
Titles in preparation or being considered include:
- All information needs an architecture
- The business of information design
- CHM files — more than help
- Does meta matter?
- Doing it with style
- Dynamic information
- HTA files — the easy interface
- HTC files — components to reuse
- The information designer's toolbox
- Information design utilities
- Interface futures
- Managing website content without a CMS
- Single source publishing
- XML - meet the family