Information design unbound : key concepts and skills for making sense in a changing world /: key concepts and skills for making sense in a changing world. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Sheila Pontis, Michael Babwahsingh.
• Authors: Pontis, Sheila; Babwahsingh, Michael
• Contents: IntroductionPART I. Context1. Understanding information design1.1 Finding our way every day1.2 Building a working definition1.3 Mapping out the landscape1.4 Seeing the bigger picture1.5 What is effective information design?1.6 Tracing the historical roots1.7 Information design comes of ageExercises2. How information designers work2.1 What makes an information designer?2.2 A collaborative, cross-disciplinary practice2.3 Ethics and professional conduct2.4 Working with the information design process2.5 The scale of information design challengesExercises3. How we process visual information3.1 The visual information processing system3.2 Vision3.3 Perception3.4 Learning and retrieval3.5 Thinking and problem-solvingExercises4. How we create meaning4.1 Understanding culture4.2 Signs, the basic units of meaning4.3 Rhetoric and communication4.4 Society, identity, and representationExercisesPART II. Skills5. Thinking and working visually5.1 Giving shape to thought5.2 Assembling your visual toolkit5.3 Learning to sketch5.4 Using diagrams to think5.5 Making use of space and formExercises6. Learning through research6.1 A structured search for knowledge6.2 Understanding the subject matter6.3 Understanding the audience6.4 Planning out your research6.5 Collecting dataExercises7. Sensemaking for communication7.1 Planning before designing7.2 Constructing knowledge7.3 Organizing informationExercises8. Designing with clarity8.1 Focusing on effectiveness8.2 Content8.3 Structure8.4 Presentation8.5 Engagement8.6 PerformanceExercisesPART III. Practice9. Communications9.1 Working with communications9.2 Project Re:form9.3 GAIA Amazonas icon system9.4 Emergency ventilator instructions9.5 We Are Here: An Atlas of Aotearoa10. Experiences10.1 Working with experiences10.2 Nemus Futurum interactive visitor experience10.3 SEPTA wayfinding master plan10.4 Skicircus wayfinding system10.5 Seat at the Table interactive exhibit11. Organizations11.1 Working with organizations11.2 Oregon Museum of Science and Industry vision and strategy11.3 Integrated journey maps12. Systems12.1 Working with systems12.2 Understanding elderly isolation in Pittsburgh12.3 Systems approach to youth employment in Bhutan12.4 Navigating the complexity of cancer diagnosisResourcesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgmentsImage credits.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (colour)
• Subjects: 003.54; Visual communication; Graphic design (Typography)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350054158
• Related ISBNs: 9781350054141; 9781350054165
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