“One of the things that I personally enjoy about Information Design is how complex and layered it is. While the basics are very simple — create information that achieves maximum effectiveness by balancing the correct content with the best aesthetics — successfully accomplishing it is something else entirely. “

“Getting at the meaning of space in maps is particularly problematic because multiple forms of space — the ‘real’ geographic space it reproduces, the coded space of scale and topology, and the presentational space of its design — are overlaid and laminated together in a map. A map also is an object which occupies space in its own right and it is, as Marx points out, the nature of objects to obscure the conditions of their own production.”

“A persona is a user profile that you can use to help make design decisions, as well as use to aid you in other ways. These profiles are created from your knowledge of your users, usually knowledge gained from user testing and research. Think of it as having a ‘virtual’ user to bounce ideas off and help you keep the goals of the user in mind on a day-to-day basis.”

“Hi. Ever since I started posting these Propaganda Posters online, I’ve gotten tons of mail asking who I am and what my problem is. My name is Micah Wright. I’m a writer for film, television, videogames and graphic novels. Like most people, I was horrified by the events of 9/11/01, but unlike George W. Bush, I’m not willing to throw away our Bill of Rights in order to feel ’safe.’”

“…For all searches they record the cookie ID, your Internet IP address, the time and date, your search terms, and your browser configuration. Increasingly, Google is customizing results based on your IP number…”

An Interview with Jesse James Garrett: “A positive user experience is one in which the goals of both the user and the organization that created the product are met. ‘Usability’ is one attribute of a successful user experience, but usability alone does not make an experience positive for the user.”

“Only one judgmental comment like those above can kill innovation. But out-of-the-box thinking is urgently needed at all levels in an organization because of heightened competition, accelerated technological development, extremely short product life cycles, diminishing returns from present methods, management fashions that did not work, and the shift to creating value with knowledge instead of material.”

“Examples of compelling visual and interactive techniques in print and online: As we build our front page gallery of Sunday morning front pages, I get a chance to see all the good work newsrooms are producing. One thing that stands out is the use of infographics on the front page.”

“Examples of compelling visual and interactive techniques in print and online: As we build our front page gallery of Sunday morning front pages, I get a chance to see all the good work newsrooms are producing. One thing that stands out is the use of infographics on the front page.”

“I think that if space is deed the ‘final frontier’ then we are all in big trouble — at least in so far as social and political theory go. Perhaps the contemporary shift to metaphors of space as modes of intelligibility is architecture’s triumph — the conquest of dense urban spaces and inhabited building by the principle of open space.”

“Just as Hansel and Gretel created a breadcrumb trail to find their path back home, today’s internet user often finds a need to get back to a website’s previously visited locations; hence, the cyber ‘breadcrumb trail’ was created. This textual representation of where and how information is located within the website allows the user to link to major categories of information along a continuum of sequential order. For example, the breadcrumb path for a leather chair on the Office Max website would be: Home > Furniture > Chairs > Leather Chairs. The location of the navigational path is often prominently placed in the upper left quarter of the website page.”

“The Index of American Design was one of the most highly regarded of the 1930s New Deal art projects. Its aim was to compile and eventually publish a visual archive of decorative, folk, and popular arts made in America from the time of settlement to about 1900. Each object was recorded in a breathtakingly meticulous watercolor drawing. This exhibition will commemorate the 60th anniversary of the [National Gallery of Art]’s acquisition of the Index of American Design and will explore issues of folk art and national identity.”

“Snark Hunting is all about naming and branding in popular culture, but you already knew that from the banner. So what does it mean? The name ‘Snark Hunting’ comes from The Hunting of the Snark, by Lewis Carroll, ‘An Agony in Eight Fits’ about the Quixotic voyage to hunt for the elusive Snark by nine very unusual characters… Brands are a little like Snarks — they are all around us, yet often invisible, and trying to pin down what makes them tick can be as elusive as the hunt in Carroll’s ‘Agony.’”

“…going to be adding links, as they come, to infographics and interactive graphics reporting on the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster…” From nixlog, a weblog dedicated to infographics, information graphics, information design, graphic design and other related issues.

“…going to be adding links, as they come, to infographics and interactive graphics reporting on the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster…” From nixlog, a weblog dedicated to infographics, information graphics, information design, graphic design and other related issues.