Conclusion

As a field, Information Design relates to all communication products and experiences. It does this without dependence on medium and is primarily concerned with clarity and understanding. Through this document, we’ve explored concepts of information and how bias, place and time all have an impact on fact and the true value of information as a tool of both understanding and power. We’ve explored how these concepts reside in a reality that is both ordered and chaotic – and dissected sense making – the explicit acceptance of a reality assumed to by both orderly and chaotic. We’ve explored the power of storytelling in information design by detailing interaction design – the intersection of the disciplines of information design, interaction design, and sensorial design. Finally, in this document we’ve explored information design in the physical world by detailing signage and wayfinding as a decision making tool and an information system.

This essay only scratches the surface of information design theory. The seemingly unrelated sections of this online document were put together to help the reader understand the far reaching powers of design and information organization. Both in digital media and the physical space, information design provides an instruction system. By understanding the concepts of information, power of storytelling, instruction systems and the ability to make sense of a reality that holds together both order and chaos, we are able to convey the knowledge in information.