Information/Instructional design

Information Design

Information Design is the organisation of data from a complex entity to something that is clear and concise. There a considered to be 5 ways in which you can organise an entity in order to make it clearer.

L ocation
A lphabet
T ime
C ategory
H ierachy

Examples:

UWS Library Website which uses Alphabet, Category and Heirachy to filter and orgranise its data from e-journals to books.

Amazon which uses Category and Alphabet

Google Earth which uses Location.

Ebay which uses Category, Time and Alphabet.