Category: Information design research
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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: Visualizing Public Broadcast News, 17 Oct 2024, 17:00 UTC
The daily flow of breaking news is channelled according to television’s editorial principles. These principles determine the order and duration of the news. Identifying simple patterns could bring important value, as public television reaches large numbers of the population.
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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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Icons for Society: Past, Present and Future
2024 sees the 40th anniversary of Susan Kare’s designs for Apple Macintosh’s groundbreaking screen icons and 42 years since Scott Fahlman introduced his joke markers made from punctuation (Emoticons). Few could have predicted how much a part of our everyday life that emojis, emoticons, and icons would become.
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Visualizing chronic pain
Rita Giordano wrote about the process of developing visualisations about pain. She describes how infographics could be transformed to better reflect patients’ needs.
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New book: ‘Woodcuts as Reading Guides.’
This book applies information design to the understanding of woodcuts. Free download.
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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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Nightingale, the journal of the Data Visualization Society
X-Ray Visualization: A Fine Tradition of Visualizing Medical Data – Plus, introducing a new contest for healthcare visualizations.