ENGL. 218: Technical and SCIENTIFIC communication
In her article, What is Information Design, Janice Redish suggests that:
“My definition of document design or information design has always been, first and foremost, the ‘whole.’ Information design is what we do to develop a document (or communication) that works for its users. Working for its users means that the people who must or want to use the information can Thus, in this class I teach information design to account for the whole process of inquiry, analysis and design.
Fig. 1. A model of the information design process. This is a visual of information design in the broad sense of doing what is necessary to develop information that works for users. The dotted arrows indicate that the process is iterative, not strictly linear. A dotted arrow should also connect the Drafting and Testing box back to the box on Selecting Content/Organizing/Designing Pages or Screens. Model © 1999, Janice C. Redish, based on versions of a similar model developed between 1978 and 1999 at the American Institutes for Research and at Redish & Associates, Inc. (Redish, 2000, p.164)
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