Design Matters

AIGA (the American Institute of Graphic Arts) held a Digital Information Design Camp for from June to August, 2005. Online orientation was held June 27 to July 1, 2005, with the online instructional program from July 5 to July 25, 2005. Preparation for the online exhibition was from July 26, with online launch August 1, 2005. Participants were AIGA members who applied to participate. The program of study is conducted online both to allow participation by working people, and to provide experience in online design. The goal is to provide training in computing technologies for traditional designers, and to provide traditional design education for professional designers trained primarily in digital design. For details, visit http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/didcamp (originally posted in June 2005).

The ID Strategy Conference was held in Chicago May 18 and 19, 2005. Slides from the presentations are available on the conference website. Topics include the relationship of strategy and design, the implicit needs of the audience, design and the developing world, and creating value through design (originally posted June 2005).

The Interaction Design Group (IxDG)–an association that serves the needs of the international community of practitioners, teachers, and students of interaction design–launched the IxDG Resource Library in May, 2005 at http://resources.ixdg.org.

The IxDG Resource Library is a repository of information about interaction design (IxD) that the IxDG community has created. It includes documents, compilations of discussions from the Ixd Discussion mailing list, and descriptions of and links to many interaction design resources on the Web. IxDG members may also comment on resources and contribute items to the Library. This notice was originally posted in 2005.

In April, 2005 a new book, visuosT by Clemens Lango, was  published. This work will be of interest to developers and designers of interactive systems, user interfaces, hypermedia systems, system architects, and people dealing with knowledge work systems: http://visuos.com (originally posted in 2005).

LAP — the Language-Action Perspective on Communication Modeling— is a theoretical orientation toward solving these design challenges that has been taken up by an international, multi-disciplinary community of researchers and practitioners. A conference was held June 19 to 20, 2005, in Kiruna, Lapland, Sweden. This notice was originally posted in 2005.

LAP emphasizes the importance of interaction and communication in designing useable, useful, and legitimate information systems. LAP recognizes that language is not only used for exchanging information, as in reports or statements, but that language is used to perform actions, as in promises, orders, requests, and declarations. Such actions are the foundation of communities and organisations and must be understood to create effective systems. This insight has profound implications for the theory and practice of designing systems to support organisational and community processes.

So far, 9 successful gatherings of scholars and practitioners interested in the Language-Action Perspective (LAP) have been held in the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Canada and USA. For more information, visit http://www.vits.org/LAP2005

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Information design is the design of visual displays of data. This definitiion is expanded in Wikipedia.