"The ducks of information design are false escapes from flatland, adding pretend dimensions to impoverished data sets, merely fooling around with information." (Edward R Tufte, "Envisioning Information", 1990)
"We envision information in order to reason about, communicate, document, and preserve that knowledge - activities nearly always carried out on two-dimensional paper and computer screen. Escaping this flatland and enriching the density of data displays are the essential tasks of information design." (Edward R Tufte, "Envisioning Information", 1990)
"Good information design is clear thinking made visible, while bad design is stupidity in action." (Edward Tufte, "Visual Explanations" , 1997)
"Dashboards and visualization are cognitive tools that improve your 'span of control' over a lot of business data. These tools help people visually identify trends, patterns and anomalies, reason about what they see and help guide them toward effective decisions. As such, these tools need to leverage people's visual capabilities. With the prevalence of scorecards, dashboards and other visualization tools now widely available for business users to review their data, the issue of visual information design is more important than ever." (Richard Brath & Michael Peters, "Dashboard Design: Why Design is Important," DM Direct, 2004)
"Information design is defined as the art and science of preparing information so that can be used by human beings with efficiency and effectiveness. Its primary objectives are:To develop documents that are comprehensible, rapidly and accurately retrievable, and easy to translate into effective actions [...]" (Sheila Pontis, "La historia de la esquematica en la visualization de datos", 2007)
"I feel that every day, all of us now are being blasted by information design. It's being poured into our eyes through the Web, and we're all visualizers now; we're all demanding a visual aspect to our information. There's something almost quite magical about visual information. It's effortless; it literally pours in." (David McCandless, "The beauty of data visualization", TEDGlobal, 2010)
"The composing of intelligible patterns from the noise of raw data is a hallmark of a good information designer. The most successful examples extract and present essential relationships in a coherent manner while limiting the obtrusiveness of accessory relationships. Effective results are self-evident whereby the information graphic is absorbed by the mind holistically." (William A Anderson & William M Bevington, "Complications and Adjacencies: An Organizing Logic for Information Graphics", Parsons Journal of Information Mapping Vol. II(3), 2010)
"Information design, when successful - whether in print, on the web, or in the environment - represents the functional balance of the meaning of the information, the skills and inclinations of the designer, and the perceptions, education, experience, and needs of the audience." (Joel Katz, "Designing Information: Human factors and common sense in information design", 2012)
"Successful information design in movement systems gives the user the information he needs - and only the information he needs - at every decision point." (Joel Katz, "Designing Information: Human factors and common sense in information design", 2012)
"Information design is a design practice concerned with the presentation of information. It is often associated with the activities of data visualization; indeed sometimes it is presented as the major field in which data visualization belongs. Unquestionably, both share an underlying motive to facilitate understanding. However, in my view, information design has a much broader application concerned with the design of many different forms of visual communication, particularly those with an instructional or functional slant, such as way-finding devices like hospital building maps or in the design of utility bills." (Andy Kirk, "Data Visualisation: A Handbook for Data Driven Design" 2nd Ed., 2019)
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