Showing posts with label Information/Instructional Design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Information/Instructional Design. Show all posts

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Information and Instructional Design Examples

Visual thesaurus is an online interactive thinking map and diagrammatic system that creates word maps that branch out related words. It is an effective website as it encourages learning through their design technique by presenting word meanings more visually interactive and easily understandable.

This is an example of Nicholas Felton’s annual report design. The presentation of this design is visually creative as it demonstrates information about the countries distribution period in 2007, with its use of pie charts, it effectively engages the viewer and provides a sense of clearer understanding about the distribution period.


This is an example of the cityrail network map. It is a graphical representation of the rail services in New South Wales. It provides an instructional design helping users of the service travel more efficiently to their destination. This design also contains addition station information, making this design, overall effective in its instructional purposes.

What is Information and Instructional Design?

The term Information and Instructional Design is a discipline, as it refers to the skill and practice of creating information and instructional content to help the users learn easily, efficiently and effectively. This form of design is basically a presentation of data transformed into more understandable contexts, and providing valuable meaning through its design structure. Communicating clearly through information and instructional design is most important, as it provides an understanding chain to the consumers of information, stimulating an experience through the design and gaining a sense of knowledge and wisdom within the presentation of data.

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“Instructional Design.” Wikipedia. 12 Mar 2009. 15 Mar 2009
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructional_design>


Shedroff, Nathan. “Information Interaction Design: A Unified Field Theory of Design.” Nathan Shedroff’s World. 1994. 15 Mar 2009
<http://www.nathan.com/thoughts/unified/3.html>