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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. An early and in some ways prescient collection of chapters from different authors, compiled with the explicit intention to provide foundations for "the ad hoc emergence of a new discipline" (from the editor's Preface). As such, it covers a diverse field of standpoints and approaches, loosely structured into theoretical foundations, case studies and a final part addressing the digital challenges. I am sure that many interaction designers and information designers can find something of interest in the book, even though I personally find it too diverse and the quality too variable for my taste. no reviews | add a review
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. Information design is the newest of the design disciplines. As a sign of our times, when the crafting of messages and meaning is so central to our lives, information design is not only important--it is essential. Contemporary information designers seek to edify more than to persuade, to exchange more than to foist upon. With ever more powerful technologies of communication, we have learned that the issuer of designed information is as likely as the intended recipient to be changed by it, for better or worse. 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. They present various methods that seem to work, such as sense-making and way-finding. They make recommendations and serve as guides to a still young but extraordinarily pervasive--and persuasive--field. ContributorsElizabeth Andersen, Judy Anderson, Simon Birrell, Mike Cooley, Brenda Dervin, Jim Gasperini, Yvonne M. Hansen, Steve Holtzman, Robert E. Horn, Robert Jacobson, John Krygier, Sheryl Macy, Romedi Passini, Jef Raskin, Chandler Screven, Nathan Shedroff, Hal Thwaites, Roger Whitehouse No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)302.2Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Social Interaction CommunicationLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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