Author: sheilapontis
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Info design in the centre of contention
As Tufte has written in one of his books: ”˜when everything is emphasised, nothing is emphasised’. This happens to me with the massive volume of blog posts, and online discussion platforms. There are so many articles/notes being published in a day, that at the end I rarely read them or comment. However, I am very…
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A closer view to Conceptual Design
Some information design projects often have a deep level of complexity and deal with high amounts of information. The creation of one or more documents to aid (information) designers in the process before they begin with prototype design is highly necessary. Conceptual design is the stage where these documents are created, as it is when…
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Applied information design: Foreign languages
This summer I have been around the UK and Europe. One of my destinations was Helsinki, first time in Finland. Immediately I noticed the language. I do have a notion of Swedish (I know basic words such as ‘street’, ‘hello’, ‘exit’), but Finnish was a totally new world for me! The funny part is that…
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Information design in Politics 2
In a previous post, it has already been highlighted the importance of information design in political issues related to economic advice and the visualisation of polling results. Similarly, this post discusses different aspects in which information design principles could benefit a voting system. In Argentina, since May, local elections have been taken place in each…
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Fun Design!
Since a while, we (closest design friends and me) discuss about the current situation of design””design environment, community, design industry, work, clients, etc. To some extent, we think that design has become too serious. Yes, I know, I write a serious-approach-to-design blog, but this doesn’t mean that design does not have to be enjoyable and…
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Information Architecture Model
Often, information designers are more concerned with learning techniques/tools and visual languages for visualising information and creating trendy information graphics (or infographics) than spending time understanding and organising the given information sources, and defining a solid conceptual structure. However, for the creation of understandable and legible information graphics the key phase in the design process…
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Legibility, Functionality and Organisation
It has been a while since I have written a post relating the London Underground diagram (LUD) and information design. This week a good friend of mine send me a link about a new layout for the LUD proposed by a UK design studio. Later this week I found an article in Metro while going…
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One thing at the time
Everyone says that, but not everyone does that (including me, of course!). In daily life we tend to do as many things at the same as we can (manage more than one project at the same time, liaise with different people, make decisions, write reports, write papers, just to mention some working tasks), and unfortunately,…
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Applied information design: Here and there
Long time ago, when I was studying at University, one of my mentors told me never to leave home without a notebook + pencil in my bag. Since the digital cameras have become affordable and portable, I have added mine to that kit of essential elements in my bag (yes, I will always be a…
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(End)Users within the Design Process
The terms ‘User’ and ‘End-user’ can be easily used with the inappropriate meaning. In Design we often talk about: the users of the design outcomes, or who are the users of…?, as referring to the audience of a particular design solution. However, according to dictionary.com, the most appropriate term would be ‘end-user’ to refer to…
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(Info) Design Associations, Journals, Online Platforms
The communication of new data and information to others is what transforms information and data into knowledge and thus what makes possible the development of a discipline. (Design) researchers can build up their work on others only if previous works have been properly documented (there are some requisites that have to be followed). Since design…
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Applied information design: The City
Since ever I have been fascinated with how cities are organised, particularly the nomenclature used to referring to the location of a specific house, building, etc. (the address!) and the types of street names/numbers, house names/numbers, and landmarks. Each city has its own nomenclature according to the culture, and way of organising its houses/buildings based…
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