Information Design

Information Design is the organisation of data into coherent information for users. it's the structuring of data into usable or intuitive groups such as Location, Alphabetical, Time, Categories or Hierarchies. By structuring information in these ways, users can navigate and find the relevant information they are after because it's in systems that a recognisable and habitual.

Good Information Design allows multiple pathways to access information to cater for different users.

Good Examples:

www.yellowpages.com.au (Alphabetical and Categorised)

A Dictionary (Alphabetical)

Street Directory (Location, Alphabetical and Categorised)

Google Earth (Location, Alphabetical and Categorised)

Library (Alphabetical, Hierarchy and Categorised)

www.ebay.com.au (Category, Time and Hierarchy)

www.top3design.com.au

Interactive Design

Interactive design is the design of the user experiance. The creation of a space for 2 way communication. Good interactive design is the creation of a space where the input is intuitive and the output is engaging or informative.

Great examples of web design examples are...

www.earth.google.com

designklicks.spiegel.de

www.flickr.com/

www.edition.cnn.com/

www.ksubi.com/

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 is the begging of collaborative media. It offers users to "use" the Internet rather than view it as programs allow them to post, comment, view, share and chat easily with out a computer degree

examples of web 2.0 are blogs such as this one and others like facebook and myspace, file shares like flikr and photobucket to wikies like wikipedia, as well as sites like eBay and messenger programs like skyp. it allows major broadcasters like the BBC to control sites that allow users to tell the news rather than just read it.

Web 2.0 is the net in it's teens. It now has the skills to converse, create, flirt and share with others...