Tuesday, March 10, 2009

What is Information / Instructional Design?

Definition


According to wikipedia,
Information design is...



the skill and practice of preparing information so people can use it with efficiency and effectiveness.


Instructional design is...


the practice of creating instructional tools and content to help facilitate learning most effectively.


Information and Instructional design can both basically be defined as the discipline of creating and showing information in a method that allows the best readability and understandability towards the user. It is a discipline and ability of gathering and organising information efficiently for users to be able to understand. Information and Instructional designs can usually be found in works ranging from statistical graphs to road signs.


Examples of Information/Instructional design



Statistical Graphs demonstrates clear and coherent information for the user to quickly understand.











Road Signs clearly show effective communication as its information is easily to understand and navigate.













Instructional designs give the user clear and coherent instructions.


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