Tag: Community
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Information design and civic administration: trust, tradition and toxicity
Speakers fom Europe, Asia and the Americas share their experience, expertise and research that interrogate the role of information design in government interactions. How do documents shape citizens’ experience of a government? When does clarity empower—and when does it conceal? How might information designers resist harmful administrative systems? What responsibilities do information designers bear when…
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AGRAFA’26 – Cycles in design
IIID is very pleased to announce that weare a partner of the AGRAFA’26 conference. It reaches out to people from outside the design industry, fosters networking, and creates platforms for sharing experiences. One particular aspect links the IIID VisionPlus’26 and AGRAFA’26 conference themes: investigating the role of the designer as a conscious agent in the…
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Registration for the IIID VisionPlus and Symbol’26 conferences open now!
In the two conferences, speakers fom around the world share their experience, expertise and research. Symbol will revisit Neurath and Isotype, VisionPlus focuses on information design for civic infrastructure, governance, citizenship.
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ISO’s new document design standard – we want your comments!
Part 1 of the standard is for general guidance, and various additional parts provide guidelines for specific contexts. IIID representatives have been drafting Part 5: Document Design. It doesn’t cover all information design – just when it’s applied to documents that are mostly text. In parallel to the standard, we have also written a pattern…
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IIID Conversation, Asia-Pacific Time Zone: Tue, 9 December 2025
For our community in the Asia-Pacific region, Rob Waller will give a morning edition of this conversation, hosted by Alex Tyers in Melbourne.
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IIID VisionPlus conference: Call for papers now open
Information design and civic administration: trust, tradition and toxicity. Civic administration is built on documents to guide and support public life. Examples of these documents are licenses (driving, hunting, fishing), forms, governmental websites, regulations (parking signs, local trash disposal), anything with taxes, labelling (food, chemicals, medicines), passport applications, visa and residence permits, immigration processes, and…
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IIID Conversation with Rob Waller: Towards a new document design standard
Towards a document design standard: Rob Waller will talk about the evolution of plain language standards and the development of a new ISO document-design supplement and pattern library to support clearer, more user-focused communication.
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IIID Studio
The International Institute for Information Design (IIID) has been leading a new initiative to inspire students to become more involved with information design. Enyoy a brief summary of the first event with five universities in Brazil, Canada, Greece, and the USA.
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ISO Plain Language Standard Part 2 published
The standard provides a clear understanding of what plain language legal communication is and how you can achieve it. An international team of experts in law and plain language wrote the standard. They are from different countries, different legal systems, and different legal fields. They identified common criteria for plain legal language.
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IIID-Studio Presentation 3: Make Healthcare Information Usable, 11 June 2025, 16:00 UTC
Join us for the third and final online event as the IIID Studio reveals its first collaborative results! This global initiative brings together 5 universities across 4 countries, 5 professors of Information Design, and 5 student teams—all united by one goal: Make healthcare information usable.