Week 1
I am starting to think about questions for interviewing my partners.
Some questions I have been asked are:
What is your favorite color?
What is my favorite food?
What is my eye color?
What is my height?
What is my favorite dessert?
What is my favorite ice cream flavor?
Are you a dog or cat person?
How many pets do you have? What are they?
Here is my reflection for the Chapter 1 reading:
Society for Technical Communications defines information design as the translating of complex, unorganized or unstructured data into valuable, meaningful information. When one separates the two words Information and design they can begin to understand what the discipline really is. Information is a bunch of data that comes from words, pictures, sounds and anything that a human could translate into meaning while design is a plan. This is interesting to me as I just started my marketing strategy class and the introduction to the book goes into depth on unstructured data and how to make a plan for it and analyze it. I think both information design and marketing analytics have the same purpose as they are both working to communicate a purpose or plan to someone in order for it to make sense. Writing, graphics and illustration are as equally important as the research and testing behind an information designer's ideas because it helps to have solid data rather than guessing. There are many different disciplines that are related to information design such as a graphic designer, information architect, interaction designer, user experience designer, usability specialist and many other fields. A graphic designer uses information design in order to create designs that effectively communicate ideas to their audiences. An information architect uses information design to organize their information using classification schemes and different software. An interaction designer’s thought process is useful in information design as they consider every detail within a project. There are so many places you see information design such as roadway signage, maps, brochures, websites, etc. Information design is also smart and cost effective. By spending time researching and figuring out customer’s needs, company’s can minimize the amount of expensive revisions that would need to be made.
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