Information/ Instructional Design [Definition]

"Information design is the visual method of explaining and interpreting complex information and data to help the user achieve a particular objective"

-Saul Carliner (2002)

The primary objectives of information design are:

• To develop documents that are comprehensible, rapidly and accurately retrievable as well as easy to use.
• To design interactions with equipment which are easy and natural and
• To enable people to find their way around a three dimensional space with comfort and ease in both real and virtual contexts.

Information design is approached from three different levels of analysis:

1. Physical; the ability of users to access the information
2. Cognitive; the ability of users to understand the given information
3. Affective; the ability of users to feel comfortable with the presentation of information.

 Similarly to information design, instructional design is the practice of creating tools and content to help facilitate learning as effectively as possible.