Category: Good practice
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Book: Interaction of Symbols
A new, detailed, and profusely illustrated book about the practice and theory of icon design.
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IIID Conversation with David Sless: Between ritual and reality, 5 December 2024, 09:00 UTC
Rituals may be awesome and reassuring, but they don’t make the world safer. Today information design is playing an ever-increasing role in trying to make real life safer and easier for people. But we need to distinguish between the rituals that only reassure and the designed information that really helps.
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IIID Conversation: Legibility of pictograms for healthcare, 12 Sep 2024, 15:00 UTC
Pharmaceutical pictograms and other graphic symbols are increasingly used to convey critical health information, but their design can be challenging due to the complexity and small size required. This time, Pia Pedersen will share her insights into the legible use of pictograms in healthcare.
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Book: A New Semiotics
An introductory guide to the field of semiotics. Assuming no prior knowledge of semiotics, this accessible text takes a fresh look at semiotics and suggests that many of the forebears and many contemporary contributors to semiotics have misconstrued the nature of their work.
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TEDx talk by Karel van der Waarde
Karel’s TEDx talk is published right on time. It highlights some arguments why the European legislation about medicines information in package leaflets needs to be changed.
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IIID Conversation with Rui Caminha, 1 June 2023, 15:00 UTC
Rui Camilha introduces award-winning legal information design from Villa – Visual Law Studio, in Brazil.
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IIID Conversation with Sheila Pontis, 4 May 2023, 15:00 UTC
Information designers know that they should create solutions that address users’ needs. But while some of us claim to do it all the time, in reality many find it hard to integrate this way of working into our daily practice.
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IIID Conversation with Karel van der Waarde, 6 April 2023, 15:00 UTC
Taking medicines is a stressful activity. Opening a cardboard box, reading a leaflet, handling tiny pills, checking the dosage and the time, and considering potential side-effects require the capacities of a strong, astute, and healthy adult.
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IIID Conversation with Stefania Passera, 2 March 2023, 15:00 UTC
“I have read and understood the terms and conditions” is the biggest lie on the internet – no one reads, and definitely no one understands (except the lawyers).
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Comment on Corona data quality
Comment by Andreas Schneider, Institute for Information Design Japan, on the quality of data provided by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at John Hopkins University, basis for the “Corona Navigator” featured in a previous post.