Sheila Pontis, Michael Babwahsingh

Information Design Unbound (eBook, PDF)

Key Concepts and Skills for Making Sense in a Changing World

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

As everyday tasks grow more confusing, and as social and global problems grow more complex, the information designer's role in bringing clarity has reached a new level of importance. In order to have a positive impact, they must go beyond conventional approaches to uncover real needs, make insightful connections, and develop effective solutions. Information Design Unbound provides a clear, engaging introduction to the field, and prepares students to be strategic thinkers and visual problem solvers who can confidently make sense in a changing world.

Sheila Pontis and Michael Babwahsingh present a holistic view of information design, synthesizing decades of research, cross-disciplinary knowledge, and emerging practices. The book opens by laying a foundation in the field, first painting the bigger picture of what it is and how it originated, before explaining the scientific and cultural dimensions of how people perceive and understand visual information. A discussion of professional practices, ethical considerations, and the expanding scale of challenges sheds light on the day-to-day work of information designers today. Detailed chapters then delve into the four areas that are integral to all types of information design work: visual thinking, research, sensemaking, and design. The final section of the book puts everything together, with detailed project walk-throughs in areas such as icon design, instructions, wayfinding, organizational strategy, and healthcare system change.

Written and designed with students' needs in mind, this book brings information design fundamentals to life: exercises allow students to put lessons directly into practice, case studies demonstrate how information designers think and work, and generous illustrations clarify concepts in a visually engaging way.

Information Design Unbound helps beginning designers build the mindset and skillset to navigate visual communication challenges wherever they may arise.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350054141
• Artikelnr.: 68345130

Autorenporträt

Sheila Pontis is lecturer at Princeton University (USA), honorary research associate at UCL (UK), and partner at Sense Information Design. Since 2002, she teaches and facilitates workshops on information design, design research, ethnography, and design thinking in Argentina, Spain, the UK and the US. She has produced work for diverse organisations in the US, South America and Europe including Pfizer, TfL, Elsevier, Unilever and NHS.

Michael Babwahsingh is an information designer and partner at Sense Information Design. His experience spans strategic design and innovation, branding, and communication design for corporate and non-profit clients. He has taught design thinking at NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Michael received a BA in Art and Graphic Design from Moravian College.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction PART I. Context 1. Understanding information design 1.1
Finding our way every day 1.2 Building a working definition 1.3 Mapping out
the landscape 1.4 Seeing the bigger picture 1.5 What is effective
information design? 1.6 Tracing the historical roots 1.7 Information design
comes of age Exercises 2. How information designers work 2.1 What makes an
information designer? 2.2 A collaborative, cross-disciplinary practice 2.3
Ethics and professional conduct 2.4 Working with the information design
process 2.5 The scale of information design challenges Exercises 3. How we
process visual information 3.1 The visual information processing system 3.2
Vision 3.3 Perception 3.4 Learning and retrieval 3.5 Thinking and
problem-solving Exercises 4. How we create meaning 4.1 Understanding
culture 4.2 Signs, the basic units of meaning 4.3 Rhetoric and
communication 4.4 Society, identity, and representation Exercises PART II.
Skills 5. Thinking and working visually 5.1 Giving shape to thought 5.2
Assembling your visual toolkit 5.3 Learning to sketch 5.4 Using diagrams to
think 5.5 Making use of space and form Exercises 6. Learning through
research 6.1 A structured search for knowledge 6.2 Understanding the
subject matter 6.3 Understanding the audience 6.4 Planning out your
research 6.5 Collecting data Exercises 7. Sensemaking for communication 7.1
Planning before designing 7.2 Constructing knowledge 7.3 Organizing
information Exercises 8. Designing with clarity 8.1 Focusing on
effectiveness 8.2 Content 8.3 Structure 8.4 Presentation 8.5 Engagement 8.6
Performance Exercises PART III. Practice 9. Communications 9.1 Working with
communications 9.2 Project Re:form 9.3 GAIA Amazonas icon system 9.4
Emergency ventilator instructions 9.5 We Are Here: An Atlas of Aotearoa 10.
Experiences 10.1 Working with experiences 10.2 Nemus Futurum interactive
visitor experience 10.3 SEPTA wayfinding master plan 10.4 Skicircus
wayfinding system 10.5 Seat at the Table interactive exhibit 11.
Organizations 11.1 Working with organizations 11.2 Oregon Museum of Science
and Industry vision and strategy 11.3 Integrated journey maps 12. Systems
12.1 Working with systems 12.2 Understanding elderly isolation in
Pittsburgh 12.3 Systems approach to youth employment in Bhutan 12.4
Navigating the complexity of cancer diagnosis Resources Bibliography Index
Acknowledgments Image credits