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One of the best statistical graphics ever drawn to organise information would be Napoleon's March illustrated by Charles Joseph Minard which represents the losses which Napoleon's army suffered during the Russian campaign in 1812. This example of informational design shows how information can be represented in a graph using lines, colours and numbers to display scale.
An example of instructional design could be this imagery of installing an air conditioning system. Using imagery of steps to take, this image aims to show how to install an air conditioner, also providing visual information onto the parts and parts of the procedure which may not be understood with just plain print.
Informational and Instructional Design are very similar in that they both provide information which has been organised and preprared to present information in the most legitimate and easily interpreted manner. Instructional Design is essentially to teach one through imaginery where as informational just provides information.
Information design can be defined as the science of organizing and preparing information in such a way which makes it easier for human beings to use and interpret in a more efficient manner. Information design is also very similar to graphic design as it is the basic foundations of what graphic design is. The organization of information for interpretation.
Instructional design is the art of arranging different types of media and content to give a better understanding and provide visual stimuli for students to relate to. Instructional Design is the design of content for example webinars, which are online seminars to teach viewers about a certain subject.
Here are a few examples of some great web design:
Ebay is a worldwide online store which is a membership site created to enable users to engage in online shopping and selling. Utilising the PayPal and credit card forms of sale and postage via the mail system, Ebay gives anyone the opportunity to sell items via a web based system, through direct sales and/or online auctions.
Ebay sorts and keeps all items in categories to make searches easier for customers and rating systems keep sellers in place from fraud to protect customers.
Membership is free and Ebay has branched out into many different countries which run seperate systems which link but are running from different servers. Ebay's search engine is used more than Google's search by users on the internet.
Brewtopia is an Australian based website located in Gladesville, where its internet website works together with their warehouse and production facilities to create a user focused service of creating personalised bottles of beer, water and wine. Customised labels on the bottles for corporate events are designed on their flash based system and then can be ordered and purchase with a credit card or PayPal account.
Once items are purchased customers must then create a login to help process an order. Purchasers of designed water, beer or wine bottles can organize for delivery of their customized items, through mail which can take up to 9 days through the postage system. Pickups from their Gladesville warehouse after three days can be also arranged for quicker retrieval.
DeviantArt is an online community or Artists and Designers, launched on the 7th of August, 2000 by Scott Jarkoff, Matthew Stephens and Angelo Sotira, amongst others. which gives users the ability to showcase their works on a worldwide platform. With the tools to upload and sort their artworks into various categories DeviantArt is one of the most popular and most used Artist and Artwork Databases online.
According to Time Magazine, in 'The Newest Time Waster' article it states that 'DeviantArt also provides a community of like-minded individuals and is visited by 2 million individuals per day who view approximately 100 million pages. As of February 2008 the site consists of over 6 million users and over 52 million submissions, and receives around 70,000 submissions per day'.
Interactive Design is the behaviour of products or systems where a user is able to interact with. The process is commonly found as computer software, or java on mobile phone devices, and other electronic devices, like mp3 players, portable dvd players. It can also be found in the method of purchase or a means of promoting a product on the internet. Interactive Design is most commonly referred to as Interaction Design.
Some famous Examples of the Web 2.0 are listed below:
Facebook an interactive social network where people must register for membership which is free, where they can then manage and organise friends, contact and send messages and upload pictures.
Much like the favoured Myspace, facebook's popularity and ease of use had began to increasingly take over the generation which was once hooked on myspace.
During myspace's registration boom, facebook's membership was slow, but increasingly growing at a third of the rate of myspace. Facebook was a platform which was founded by Harvard University student, Mark Zuckerberg as a membership site which was only created for the use by Harvard students, but was later opened for larger use by any university students, further then expanding to high school students and eventually anyone over 13 years old. Facebook is also the most popular site on the internet for uploading photos, with an average of 14 million uploaded daily.
Youtube is a platform on the internet where users can upload and view videos onto a worldwide server for access by other users. Another community formed from worldwide users, Youtube follows the information sharing.
Founded by three former Paypal employees, in the February of 2005, Youtube's popularity increased rapidly as there were not many video players on the internet which buffered with the quality of Youtube.
According to USA TODAY, 'more than 100 million videos were being watched every day, and 2.5 billion videos were watched in June 2006. 50,000 videos were being added per day in May 2006, and this increased to 65,000 by July'.
Blogger is an online blog publishing system which uses html based editing to created blogs published onto their servers, for users to share amongst other fellow bloggers.
Blogger was created by Pyra Labs and was one of the earliest dedicated blog-publishing tools available online. It is commonly praised for popularising the format used today. Blogger was then acquired by Google in 2003.
These are only a few examples of dedicated browser based platforms on the internet available today, which spurred from the Web 2.0 generation of developers and ideas. There are alot more out there, and many more are created each day. Some may not have the impact which the three above had, but they still utilise the same new elements which differentiate Web 1.0 pages from Web 2.0 systems.
The term Web 2.0 is commonly used to refer to development in the World Wide Web, where a second generation of web-based services and communities, emerged.
Examples such as social networking sites (myspace, facebook, tickle) wikis (wikipedia), blogs (blogger) all created in a means of sharing information amongst users through the internet. Most users now consider Web 2.0 the next generation of the internet.
For more information, and some examples of Web 2.0 browser based platforms, click the link below:
Examples of Web 2.0
One of the best statistical graphics ever drawn to organise information would be Napoleon's March illustrated by Charles Joseph Minard which represents the losses which Napoleon's army suffered during the Russian campaign in 1812. This example of informational design shows how information can be represented in a graph using lines, colours and numbers to display scale.
An example of instructional design could be this imagery of installing an air conditioning system. Using imagery of steps to take, this image aims to show how to install an air conditioner, also providing visual information onto the parts and parts of the procedure which may not be understood with just plain print.
