Chapter-5 The Challenge of Designing Meaningful Information
Yvonne Eriksson* and Anna-Lena Carlsson
School of innovation, design and engineering. Division of Information Design, Eskilstuna/Västerås, Malardalen University
* Corresponding author: yvonne.eriksson@mdh.se
Information design is a relatively new design discipline. In 2000, Robert E. Horn defined information design as “the art and science of preparing information so that it can be used by human beings with efficiency and effectiveness” (Hom, 2000). The objectives behind this statement were to develop documents that are comprehensible, to design interfaces that allow interactions that are coherent and easy to use, and to enable people to find their way ...
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