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Information Design »
Authors: Robert Jacobson (Editor), Richard Saul Wurman
ISBN-13: 9780262600354, ISBN-10: 0262600358
Format: Paperback
Publisher: MIT Press
Date Published: August 2000
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Robert Jacobson
Book Synopsis
The contributors to this book are both cautionary and hopeful as they offer visions of how information design can be practiced diligently and ethically, for the benefit of information consumers as well as producers.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | ||
| Preface | ||
| 1 | Introduction: Why Information Design Matters | 1 |
| I | Theoretical Foundations of Information Design | 11 |
| 2 | Information Design: The Emergence of a New Profession | 15 |
| 3 | Chaos, Order, and Sense-Making: A Proposed Theory for Information Design | 35 |
| 4 | Human-Centered Design | 59 |
| 5 | Sign-Posting Information Design | 83 |
| II | The Practice of Information Design | 99 |
| 6 | The Uniqueness of Individual Perception | 103 |
| 7 | Information Design in Informal Settings: Museums and Other Public Spaces | 131 |
| 8 | Graphic Tools for Thinking, Planning, and Problem Solving | 193 |
| 9 | Visual Design in Three Dimensions | 221 |
| 10 | Collaborative Information Design: Seattle's Modern Odyssey | 247 |
| III | Designing for the Technologies of Information | 263 |
| 11 | Information Interaction Design: A Unified Field Theory of Design | 267 |
| 12 | Interactivity and Meaning | 293 |
| 13 | The Role of Ambiguity in Multimedia Experience | 301 |
| 14 | Sculpting in Zeroes and Ones | 317 |
| 15 | Personal Reflections on the Development of Cyberspace | 327 |
| Epilogue | 339 | |
| 16 | Rationalizing Information Representation | 341 |
| Contributors | 349 |
Subjects
Art, Architecture & Photography
Decorative Arts Design - General & Miscellaneous
Art, Architecture & Photography Design Communication in design
Engineering Social & Cultural Aspects of Technology Technological Innovations & Transferance
Entertainment Media Communications - General & Miscellaneous
Nonfiction Social Sciences Media & Communications
Science & Nature Social Sciences Media & Communications
Social Sciences Media & Communications Communications - General & Miscellaneous
Nonfiction Entertainment Media
Decorative Arts Design - General & MiscellaneousArt, Architecture & Photography
Design Communication in designEngineering
Social & Cultural Aspects of Technology Technological Innovations & TransferanceEntertainment
Media Communications - General & MiscellaneousNonfiction
Social Sciences Media & CommunicationsScience & Nature
Social Sciences Media & CommunicationsSocial Sciences
Media & Communications Communications - General & MiscellaneousNonfiction
Entertainment Media
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