Info Design: What Is Info Design:
Mod 1: Let's Examine Information Design
Think clean, concise and creative and you have a basic foundation for Information Design.
Information Design is a specialty that utilizes art, text and information in careful combination. The goal is to supply a main idea in such a manner that it is user friendly. This art is often used for advertising, signage, health and safety, and instructional information. It can take on different mediums from a street sign to a computer web page.
A spectrum of disciplines utilize information design. The goal is to take information and weed out the unimportant in order to focus on the main idea. The results often are not only useful but attractive to the eye.
Mod 2: Let's Examine Human - Centered Design
This theory of design was created by Mike Cooley.
The aspects that I appreciate:
This theory encourages creativity and imagination.
A multi-disciplinary approach.
Allows for more than one way to achieve the goal.
Builds on what we already know.
Encourages taking responsibility.
The aspect that gives me pause:
Rejects scientific models.
The way I would use this in a blog by using an unusual approach to a topic or lesson. By adding some"personality" to an otherwise serious lesson, we can grab the interest of the learner making an impression that will make the lesson more memorable.
I would like to implement this by giving examples of respiratory care procedures that are clinically accurate but add present a human approach.
Reference
Jacobson,R. 2000. Information design. Mass. MIT Press
